We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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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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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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All literature is protest.
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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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