I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
RICHARD WRIGHTWe had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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All literature is protest.
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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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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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