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.
RICHARD WRIGHTAll literature is protest.
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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All literature is protest.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness
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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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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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