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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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I 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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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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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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All literature is protest.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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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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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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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible… Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world.
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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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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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