It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
RICHARD WRIGHTWe 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.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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All literature is protest.
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I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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The 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.
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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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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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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
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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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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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