I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
RICHARD WRIGHTWhat could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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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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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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All literature is protest.
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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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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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