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.
RICHARD WRIGHTWhat could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
More Richard Wright Quotes
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All literature is protest.
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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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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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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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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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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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