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.
RICHARD WRIGHTThe artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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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 did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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 made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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