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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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