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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.
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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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