Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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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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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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