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
RICHARD WRIGHTA 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.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.
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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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They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.
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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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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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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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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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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 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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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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