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.
RICHARD WRIGHTThe artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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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
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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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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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
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We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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