I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
RICHARD WRIGHTI endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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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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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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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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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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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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