I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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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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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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