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.
RICHARD WRIGHTWe 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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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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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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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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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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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