It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.

RICHARD WRIGHT

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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.

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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

RICHARD WRIGHT

Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Drawing Inference Interfere
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.

RICHARD WRIGHT

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.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Answer Drama Made Nobody Sought
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 WRIGHT

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 WRIGHT

Arouse Hostility Identification Something
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.

RICHARD WRIGHT

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.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Author Closely Dark More Think Wrote
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.

RICHARD WRIGHT

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.
RICHARD WRIGHT

City Grant Pavement Seem Suspect Take Think
I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

RICHARD WRIGHT

I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Cloudy Endowed Own Potentialities Redeem Yearning
We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.

RICHARD WRIGHT

We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Medicine Own System
The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.

RICHARD WRIGHT

The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Ait Blink Collision Down Fill Heading Heedless Red Scream Steep
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.

RICHARD WRIGHT

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.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Being Disbelieve New Something
Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Know might Something Southern Switch
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

RICHARD WRIGHT

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
RICHARD WRIGHT

Cry End Gather Revealed Together
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

RICHARD WRIGHT

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Expression Individuality Oppressed
Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.

RICHARD WRIGHT

Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Cities City Dusty Farm Folk Hard Pavement Upon
Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.

RICHARD WRIGHT

Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Conclusion Reluctantly
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Capture Carried Cultivation Ivory Medicine Own
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?

RICHARD WRIGHT

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?
RICHARD WRIGHT

Certain Exactly Ought

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