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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 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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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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