We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
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