Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
RICHARD WRIGHTKill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
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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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The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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