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“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
― Native Son
― Native Son
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“All literature is protest.”
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“Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? 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 civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?”
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Black Culture Book Club
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Welcome to the Black Culture Book Club! We'll use this space to discuss a new book every month. It's one thing to read a book and digest it on your ow ...more
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