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.
RICHARD WRIGHTLove grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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Our 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.
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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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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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All literature is protest.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
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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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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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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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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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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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The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.
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