Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
RICHARD WRIGHTNo 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.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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All literature is protest.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
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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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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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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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