But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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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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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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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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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