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
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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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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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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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 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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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.
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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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