Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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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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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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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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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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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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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 didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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All literature is protest.
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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