The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHTIt 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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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
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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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It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
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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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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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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
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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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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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