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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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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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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