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
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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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 more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.
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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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