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““My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it.””

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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…

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“Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it”

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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…

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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

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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…

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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…

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“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was…

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“Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same dreams as…

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“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional…

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“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of…

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“absolute power is corrupting”

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“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said…

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As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.

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