If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
RICHARD WRIGHTWhat could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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