Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
RICHARD WRIGHTDon’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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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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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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The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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