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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, 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
“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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“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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