If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
RICHARD WRIGHTMen can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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 was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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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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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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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