I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
RICHARD WRIGHTWe had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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.
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there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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