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?
RICHARD WRIGHTThe artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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 could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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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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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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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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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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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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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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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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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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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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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