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.
RICHARD WRIGHTthere 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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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 was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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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 could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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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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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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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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