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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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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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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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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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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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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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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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We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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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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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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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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