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
RICHARD WRIGHTHe 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.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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All literature is protest.
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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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The holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.
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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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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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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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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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The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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