They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.
RICHARD WRIGHTDon’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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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 did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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