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.
RICHARD WRIGHTMake up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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 was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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The 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.
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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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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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