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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 black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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