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.
RICHARD WRIGHTHe 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.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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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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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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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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All literature is protest.
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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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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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