I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
RICHARD WRIGHTThey hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?
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No 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.
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Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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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 not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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