I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
RICHARD WRIGHTIn me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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All literature is protest.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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 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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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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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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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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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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