In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
RICHARD WRIGHTWhenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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 could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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I 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.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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