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.
RICHARD WRIGHTReading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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.
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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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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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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All literature is protest.
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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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