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.
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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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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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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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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