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 WRIGHTDon’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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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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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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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
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