If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
RICHARD WRIGHTGoddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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