I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
RICHARD WRIGHTHe 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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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 didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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