And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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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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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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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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