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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. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Cliffs Notes on Wright's Black Boy
― Cliffs Notes on Wright's Black Boy
“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
― Native Son
― Native Son
“I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“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, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.”
― Cliffs Notes on Wright's Black Boy
― Cliffs Notes on Wright's Black Boy
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