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.
RICHARD WRIGHTThe 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.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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?
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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.
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