Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
RICHARD WRIGHTI made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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 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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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 was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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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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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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