It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness

RICHARD WRIGHT

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It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness

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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?

RICHARD WRIGHT

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?
RICHARD WRIGHT

Frantic Frightened Notion Say
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.

RICHARD WRIGHT

At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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Aread Everything Living Others Peaceful Spekticle Twelve
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.

RICHARD WRIGHT

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.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Anything Breath Denied Else Feel New
I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

RICHARD WRIGHT

I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Clinched Fail Nourish
We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.

RICHARD WRIGHT

We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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Medicine Own System
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.

RICHARD WRIGHT

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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Elbow Less More Up Wake
We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

RICHARD WRIGHT

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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Realization Self Strive
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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Ache Another Awful Chance Committed Knowing Some Undo Vaguely
Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

RICHARD WRIGHT

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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Half Halfway Make Small
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.

RICHARD WRIGHT

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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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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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.

RICHARD WRIGHT

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.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Author Closely Dark More Think Wrote
They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.

RICHARD WRIGHT

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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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