I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
RICHARD WRIGHTBut 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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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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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I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
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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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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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All literature is protest.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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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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