And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
RICHARD WRIGHTI endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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The holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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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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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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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