Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
RICHARD WRIGHTAnd they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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All literature is protest.
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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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.
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