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.
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 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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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 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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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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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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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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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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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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