Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
RICHARD WRIGHTReluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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All literature is protest.
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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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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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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