I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.
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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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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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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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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 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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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 was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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