In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
RICHARD WRIGHT
I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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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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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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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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I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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