I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
RICHARD WRIGHTLove grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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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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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.
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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 didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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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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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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All literature is protest.
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
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