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But full emotional and intellectual belief never came.†
Chpt 1.4

"You're an intellectual," he said, smiling disdainfully.†
Chpt 2.16

I did not think that there existed many whites who, through intellectual effort, could lift themselves out of the traditions of their times and see the Negro objectively.†
Chpt 2.18

I was shocked to hear that I, who had been only to grammarschool, had been classified as an intellectual.†
Chpt 2.19

What was an intellectual?†
Chpt 2.19 *

I dismissed the warning about the Soviet Union's trouble with intellectuals.†
Chpt 2.19

Intellectuals don't fit well into the party, Wright," he said solemnly.†
Chpt 2.19

But I'm not an intellectual," I protested.†
Chpt 2.19

We've kept records of the trouble we've had with intellectuals in the past.†
Chpt 2.19

Why do they leave, since you insist upon calling me an intellectual?†
Chpt 2.19

"The Soviet Union has had to shoot a lot of intellectuals," he said.†
Chpt 2.19 *

The irony of it was that I, who had all but to steal books to read, had been branded as an intellectual by the one group that claimed it was dedicated to educating the oppressed and informing them with a vision of life.†
Chpt 2.19

If I was an intellectual, then what was a Negro doctor, lawyer, teacher?†
Chpt 2.19

None of the black Communists I knew possessed the intellectual capacity to formulate a Trotskyite position in politics.†
Chpt 2.19

I was termed a "bastard intellectual," an "incipient Trotskyite"; it was claimed that I possessed an "antileadership attitude" and that I was manifesting "seraphim tendencies," the latter phrase meaning that one has withdrawn from the struggle of life and considers oneself an infallible angel.†
Chpt 2.19

"This is the home of a bastard intellectual," I cut at him.†
Chpt 2.19

It was irrational that Communists should hate what they called "intellectuals," or anybody who tried to think for himself.†
Chpt 2.19

In trying to grasp why Communists hated intellectuals, my mind was led back again to the accounts I had read of the Russian Revolution.†
Chpt 2.19

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(intellectual as in: She is an intellectual.)
a highly educated person interested in learning and exploring ideas -- sometimes while ignoring practical considerations

(intellectual as in: intellectual stimulation)
related to intelligence -- such as requiring, appealing to, or possessing intelligence