Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
RICHARD WRIGHTI endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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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 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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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