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.
RICHARD WRIGHTThe 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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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The holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.
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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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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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