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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

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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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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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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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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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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
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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 endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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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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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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