I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
RICHARD WRIGHTDon’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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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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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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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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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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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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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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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
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