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“From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.”

Quote by Jay Saunders Redding

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Jay Saunders Redding

Jay Saunders Redding was an American author born on October 13, 1906, and passed away on March 2, 1988. His works are known for their profound psychological insights and delicate portrayal of human nature. more

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“I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself. Within, it was like the buried memory of a name that will not come to the tongue for utterance.”

Knows Found Names Memories Tongue Buried Utterance

Book:A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977

Source: A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977

“The writer's ultimate purpose is to use his gifts to develop man's awareness of himself so that he, man, can become a better instrument for living together with other men. This sense of identity is the root by which all honest creative effort is fed.”

Men Use Together Purpose Effort Creative Honest Awareness Identity He Man Roots Ultimate Instruments Feds Living Together

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“The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning, and the extent to which they promote for blacks and whites alike a completely rewarding participation in American life.”

Mind Study Tests Finals Participation American Life Afros

Author:Jay Saunders Redding

“The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .”

Persons Real Reality Vision Willing Radical

Book:Down the line

Source: Down the line

“We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.”

Needs Giving Should Soul Stories Body Light Water Blood Philosopher Pens Historian Forefathers Chasms Soul And Body Blood Is Thicker Than Water

Author:Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Sometimes Problem Black Loss Cases Information Stuck Holes Furious Black Hole Way Forward

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“The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.”

Teacher Priests

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“Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.”

Art Universe Force Art Is Invisible Animated

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“I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.”

Made Ideas Care Emotion Behinds Taken Habit Mere Made It Suspicious

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“The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.”

Culture Difficult Black Modern Europe Admire Ancestor Splits Modern Life Inner Life Equilibrium Unstable African Culture

Author:Leopold Sedar Senghor