Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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there 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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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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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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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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The holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.
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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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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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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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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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