"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization……" — Richard Wright
"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread."
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38 Quotes by Richard Wright
Richard Wright has 38 quotes on this site.
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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 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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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
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One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much…
— Ella Baker
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
— Josephine Baker
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So…
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
— James A. Baldwin
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
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