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

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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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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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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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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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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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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 civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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All literature is protest.
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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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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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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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