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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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The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
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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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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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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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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
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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 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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