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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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Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
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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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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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All literature is protest.
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All Literature Protest
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?
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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 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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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 was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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.
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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 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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible… Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world.
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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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