The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.
RICHARD WRIGHTBut the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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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 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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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All literature is protest.
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Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
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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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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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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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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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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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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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