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 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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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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.
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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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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 didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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