We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
RICHARD WRIGHT
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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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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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 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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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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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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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