Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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The holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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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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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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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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