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.
RICHARD WRIGHTThe artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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