Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
RICHARD WRIGHTThe holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?
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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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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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