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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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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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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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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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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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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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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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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