"At the age of twelve I had an……" — Richard Wright
"At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful."
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38 Quotes by Richard Wright
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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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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't.…
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up…
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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…
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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…
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