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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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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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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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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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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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 was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness
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The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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