In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
RICHARD WRIGHTThe spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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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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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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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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The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
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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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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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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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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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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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All literature is protest.
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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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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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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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