In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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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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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.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.
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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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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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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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All literature is protest.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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