In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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All literature is protest.
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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.
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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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 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.
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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.
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