"It would have been impossible for me to……" — Richard Wright
"It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself. [...] It had been only through books - at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions - that I had managed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books; consequently, my belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from any abiding conviction of their ultimate value."
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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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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].
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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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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
— Cecil Beaton
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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an…
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection…
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If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers -…
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
— Wole Soyinka
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And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world…
— George McGovern
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one…
— Charlotte Mason
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of…
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