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“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
― Black Boy
― 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
“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.”
― Native Son
― Native Son
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