Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.

RICHARD WRIGHT

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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 knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

RICHARD WRIGHT

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Aspiration Limited Redeem Something Somewhere
We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Basket Cloth Cotton Folk Smelted Spun Wool
I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .

RICHARD WRIGHT

I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
RICHARD WRIGHT

Darling South Unknown
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.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Hour Like Made Peacefully Suffer Tender Violent
The 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.

RICHARD WRIGHT

The 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.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Frightened Holy Necessity White
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.

RICHARD WRIGHT

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.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Could Mode Must Penalty Said Way
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Capture Carried Cultivation Ivory Medicine Own
And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.

RICHARD WRIGHT

And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Know Pawn Powerless
there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

RICHARD WRIGHT

there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
RICHARD WRIGHT

Cry End Gather Revealed Together
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

RICHARD WRIGHT

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Realization Self Strive
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.

RICHARD WRIGHT

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.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Assumption Been Long Saw
I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

RICHARD WRIGHT

I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Cloudy Endowed Own Potentialities Redeem Yearning
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

RICHARD WRIGHT

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Abiding Anyone Less Told
Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

RICHARD WRIGHT

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
RICHARD WRIGHT

Half Halfway Make Small
But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.

RICHARD WRIGHT

But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Anything Breath Denied Else Feel New
I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.

RICHARD WRIGHT

I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
RICHARD WRIGHT

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