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 WRIGHTI did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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