But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
RICHARD WRIGHTIt 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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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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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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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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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It 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 listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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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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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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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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They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.
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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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