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.
RICHARD WRIGHTWhat could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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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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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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