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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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Barest Coming Dream Justice Pososblity Thinking True
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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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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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Could Death Emotion Mode Must Penalty Place Sad Said Way
I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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Bleak Environment Happen Made Thing Vbare
I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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Day Forget Learn Leaving might Some South Understand
there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
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Again Cry End Gather Reason Revealed Sense Stop Together
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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Book Environment Fail Support
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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Color Convert Defense Make Recognizable Skin Suspect Target
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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Another Back Before Talk Chance Kill Moment Myself Save Turn
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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Darling Leaving Myself Rain South Unknown Wind
Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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Half Halfway House Inside Make Mind Small
I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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