Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
RICHARD WRIGHT
I 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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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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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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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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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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