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.
RICHARD WRIGHTIt 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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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.
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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 literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible… Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world.
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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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He 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 could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
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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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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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