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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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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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All literature is protest.
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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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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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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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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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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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible… Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world.
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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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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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