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.
RICHARD WRIGHT
Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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All literature is protest.
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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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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The holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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