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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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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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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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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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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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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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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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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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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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The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.
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I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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