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 WRIGHTWhat could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
More Richard Wright Quotes
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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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.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness
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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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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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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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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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Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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