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.
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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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 smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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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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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 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 artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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