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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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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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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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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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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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Ache Another Awful Chance Committed Done Knowing Listen Some Undo Vaguely
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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 could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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Began Constant Could Hate Mind Nothingness Reason Sense Slowly Upon Want
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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.
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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.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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Emotionally Factually Knows Stories True
I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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