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Richard Wright has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together…
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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance…
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Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a…
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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…
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do…
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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…
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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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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less…
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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…
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that…
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It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our…
— David Lloyd-Jones
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No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.
— Hannah More
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The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on…
— Thomas Guthrie
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,-…
— Alexander Pope
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This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his…
— John Keats
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Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the…
— John Clare
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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on…
— William Butler Yeats
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The real power is love, that which empowers others, that which arouses action, that which no chain is able to hold back,…
— Pope Francis
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Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's…
— Julie Benz
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Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.
— Scott Simon
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Everything’s been about the journey, I never really set out with goals for fighting; it’s been about the adventure along the way.…
— Evan Tanner
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