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.
RICHARD WRIGHTI 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.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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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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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 didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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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 made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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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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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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