What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
RICHARD WRIGHTI was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
More Richard Wright Quotes
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.
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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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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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