You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
RICHARD WRIGHTI could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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All literature is protest.
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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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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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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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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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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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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.
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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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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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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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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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