Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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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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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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