Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible… Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world.
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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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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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 was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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