Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
RICHARD WRIGHTAt the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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 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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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