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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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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 endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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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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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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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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