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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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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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