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So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowle...more

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It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was...more

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You're a Black educated fool, son. These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the ...more

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All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.

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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of sub...more

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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.