We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
RICHARD WRIGHTIt was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?
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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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It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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