We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
RICHARD WRIGHTI didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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All literature is protest.
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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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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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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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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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