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.
RICHARD WRIGHTAnd they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
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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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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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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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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.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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