Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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 not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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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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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally 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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All literature is protest.
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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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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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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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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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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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