Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
RICHARD WRIGHTReluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.
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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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