With a little practice, you too can forge in the smithy of your soul the uncreated conscience of your race.

I dropped my writer friend at the airport, misty-eyed and full of ideas for how I'd use the money to start forging the uncreated conscience of my race in the smithy of my soul.

Thus, at the age of fifty, he threw all his energies into what he considered his sole duty-to forge, like Joyce, the uncreated conscience of his race; to become a priest of the imagination.

Wittman is Maxine Hong Kingston's Stephen Dedalus, who wants to "forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."

This is the self-portrait of a rare and thoughtful man, one who, in the spirit of James Joyce, tried to transform "the reality of experience" into what Joyce called the "uncreated conscience of my race."

I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

Stephen Dedalus, the hero of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, leaves Ireland at the end of the novel to begin his task as an artist of creating "the uncreated conscience of my race."

I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race....Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

If he were any other color, he might have been able to end his portrait of an artist as a young man with the determination to become a writer (as he did) and forge in the smithy of his soul the uncreated conscience of his race, instead of forging his own conscience about race.