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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.

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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?
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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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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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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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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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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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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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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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