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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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The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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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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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 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 did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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