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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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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 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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I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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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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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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Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
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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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