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

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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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All literature is protest.
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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