What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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 literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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