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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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Alive Ems Enough Felt Kill Life Until
What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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Devotion Experience Grow Love Loyalty Relationship
Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Drawing Evidence Inference Interfere
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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Arouse Believe Character Feeling Hostility Identification Right Something Wrong
I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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Darling Leaving Myself Rain South Unknown Wind
I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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Day Forget Learn Leaving might Some South Understand
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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Ache Another Awful Chance Committed Done Knowing Listen Some Undo Vaguely
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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Color Convert Defense Make Recognizable Skin Suspect Target
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Consciousness Heart Kind Light Night Shape Yearning
I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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Cloudy Endowed Hungry Own Potentialities Redeem Ultimate Yearning
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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