We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
RICHARD WRIGHTReading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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 didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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