I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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 was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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