I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
RICHARD WRIGHTBut the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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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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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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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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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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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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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 had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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