"I did not know if the story was……" — Richard Wright
"I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...]."
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38 Quotes by Richard Wright
Richard Wright has 38 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a…
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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…
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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things…
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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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied…
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in…
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More Emotionally Quotes
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What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but…
— Julian Barnes
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Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote…
— Drew Barrymore
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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
— Lynda Barry
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Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be…
— Franz Boas
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I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.
— Terry Bradshaw
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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of…
— Johannes Brahms
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to…
— Berkeley Breathed
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I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is…
— Tim Burton
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There's so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it's sometimes far…
— Sandra Bullock
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Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one…
— Sandra Bullock
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I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt…
— Sandra Bullock
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