I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
RICHARD WRIGHTAll literature is protest.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
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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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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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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