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Blue-jazz was the scornful gesture of men turned ecstatic in their state of rejection.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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I had understood nothing. I was black and they were black, but my blackness did not help me.
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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. They simply extended into objective reality what was already a subjective reality. Only jailors really believe in jails.
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Born:
September 4, 1908
Died:
November 28, 1960
(aged 52)
Bio:
Richard Nathaniel Wright was an American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
Known for:
Broken China
Wet Dream
The Dark Side of the Moon
The Wall
Wish You Were Here
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