It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
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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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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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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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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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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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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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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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