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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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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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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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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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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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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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Ache Another Awful Chance Committed Done Knowing Listen Some Undo Vaguely
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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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All literature is protest.
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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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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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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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