I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
RICHARD WRIGHTAnything 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.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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All literature is protest.
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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