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.
RICHARD WRIGHT
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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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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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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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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A 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.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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All literature is protest.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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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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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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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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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