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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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