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RICHARD WRIGHTI was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
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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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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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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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All literature is protest.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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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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