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.
RICHARD WRIGHTLove grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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