I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
RICHARD WRIGHTIf a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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All literature is protest.
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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 had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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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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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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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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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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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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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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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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