I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
RICHARD WRIGHTMake up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
More Richard Wright Quotes
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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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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Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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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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