Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
RICHARD WRIGHTI didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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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 could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible… Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world.
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We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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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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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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