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.
RICHARD WRIGHT
It 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
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.
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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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 was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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