Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
RICHARD WRIGHTI did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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.
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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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All literature is protest.
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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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.
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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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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible… Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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