Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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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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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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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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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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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