Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
RICHARD WRIGHTLove grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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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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