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.
RICHARD WRIGHTKill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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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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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
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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 could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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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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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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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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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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