They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.
RICHARD WRIGHTI was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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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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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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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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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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All literature is protest.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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