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.
RICHARD WRIGHTReluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.
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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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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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All literature is protest.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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