Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
RICHARD WRIGHTI could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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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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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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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 made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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