They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.
RICHARD WRIGHTIt was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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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 was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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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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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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