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.
RICHARD WRIGHTI made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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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 didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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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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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 made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?
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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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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 was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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