Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.
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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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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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