We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
RICHARD WRIGHTBut the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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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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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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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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