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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

Richard Wright

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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Alive Ems Enough Felt Kill Life Until
Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Book Environment Fail Support
I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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Darling Leaving Myself Rain South Unknown Wind
I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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Day Forget Learn Leaving might Some South Understand
I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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Bleak Environment Happen Made Thing Vbare
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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Being Deepest Fear Feeling Hate Live Play
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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Certain Civilization Exactly Heart Life Men Ought Sense
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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Aspiration Black Country Limited Live People Redeem Something Somewhere
Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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Black Goddamnit Jail Life White
Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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Afraid Bad Country Good Lonely Self Term White
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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Black Country Jail Living People Thing White
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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Ache Another Awful Chance Committed Done Knowing Listen Some Undo Vaguely
And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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Blind Force Know Pawn Play Powerless Social
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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Conscience Damm Drape Easy Hug Righteousness Salvie Self
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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Gratitude Hour Like Live Made Peacefully Spirit Suffer Tender Violent
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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Affect Being Believe Different Disbelieve Feeling Matter New Something

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

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