Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
RICHARD WRIGHTMake up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
More Richard Wright Quotes
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The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.
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A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.
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Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
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The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.
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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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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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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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible… Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world.
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
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We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
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