Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
RICHARD WRIGHT
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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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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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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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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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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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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