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Richard Wright Quotes

Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come Picture Quote #1

Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, 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 Picture Quote #1

What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? 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 Picture Quote #1

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out! Picture Quote #1

But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target Picture Quote #1

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing Picture Quote #1

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It’s becoming very much like 1979 again Picture Quote #1

I’d like to see the bay cleaned up before I die Picture Quote #1

You are your own law, so you’ll be your own judge Picture Quote #1

The moment we act as if it’s true, then it’s true Picture Quote #1

This business of saving souls had no ethics Picture Quote #1

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination Picture Quote #1

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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons Picture Quote #1

A sleepless spring night: Yearning for what I never had and for what never was Picture Quote #1

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books Picture Quote #1

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust Picture Quote #1

Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented Picture Quote #1

All literature is protest Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread Picture Quote #1

There are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed Picture Quote #1

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong Picture Quote #1

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, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning Picture Quote #1

I would hurl words into the darkness and wait for an echo. If an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight Picture Quote #1

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Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth... All these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed Picture Quote #1

Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. 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 Picture Quote #1

In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, 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. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, 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 Picture Quote #1

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? 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? Picture Quote #1

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Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come. (Richard Wright Quotes) Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, 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. (Richard Wright Quotes) What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? 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. (Richard Wright Quotes) Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out! (Richard Wright Quotes) But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target (Richard Wright Quotes) The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing (Richard Wright Quotes) It’s becoming very much like 1979 again (Richard Wright Quotes) I’d like to see the bay cleaned up before I die (Richard Wright Quotes) You are your own law, so you’ll be your own judge (Richard Wright Quotes) The moment we act as if it’s true, then it’s true (Richard Wright Quotes) This business of saving souls had no ethics (Richard Wright Quotes) The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination (Richard Wright Quotes) Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons (Richard Wright Quotes) A sleepless spring night: Yearning for what I never had and for what never was (Richard Wright Quotes) Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books (Richard Wright Quotes) Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust (Richard Wright Quotes) Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented (Richard Wright Quotes) All literature is protest (Richard Wright Quotes) If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie (Richard Wright Quotes) Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread (Richard Wright Quotes) There are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed (Richard Wright Quotes) Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong (Richard Wright Quotes) 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, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning (Richard Wright Quotes) I would hurl words into the darkness and wait for an echo. If an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight (Richard Wright Quotes) Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth... All these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed (Richard Wright Quotes) Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling? (Richard Wright Quotes) 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 (Richard Wright Quotes) I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. 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 (Richard Wright Quotes) In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, 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. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, 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 (Richard Wright Quotes) 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? 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? (Richard Wright Quotes)

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