We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
RICHARD WRIGHTI made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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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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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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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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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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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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