Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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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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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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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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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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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It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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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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