Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
RICHARD WRIGHTIt 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
More Richard Wright Quotes
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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