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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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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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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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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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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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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The holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.
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It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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