I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
RICHARD WRIGHTGoddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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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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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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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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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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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 made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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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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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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