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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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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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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 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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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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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
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