What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
RICHARD WRIGHTWe had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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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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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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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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 did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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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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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 listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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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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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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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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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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 artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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