The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHTI made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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 was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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All literature is protest.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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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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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 was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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