Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
RICHARD WRIGHTGoddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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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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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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It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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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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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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