I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
RICHARD WRIGHTIt 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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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Kill 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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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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It 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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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The holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.
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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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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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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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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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