Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
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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.
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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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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 endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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