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.
RICHARD WRIGHTIt would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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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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All literature is protest.
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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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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 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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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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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 was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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