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
RICHARD WRIGHTWe smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming 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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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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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