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 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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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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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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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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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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