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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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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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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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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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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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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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All literature is protest.
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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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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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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
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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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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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible… Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world.
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