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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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All literature is protest.
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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 did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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