Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
RICHARD WRIGHTBut the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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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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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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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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?
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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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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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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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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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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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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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