And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
RICHARD WRIGHTOur 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.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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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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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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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.
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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.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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All literature is protest.
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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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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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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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