It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
RICHARD WRIGHTGoddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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All literature is protest.
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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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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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