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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.

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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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 not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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