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?
RICHARD WRIGHTthere are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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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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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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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 could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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