And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
RICHARD WRIGHTThe 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.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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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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All literature is protest.
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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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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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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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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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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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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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