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 WRIGHTDon’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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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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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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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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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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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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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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.
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