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.
RICHARD WRIGHTI did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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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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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 not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
RICHARD WRIGHT
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