Richard Wright Quote

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.

Native Son (1940)

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us...

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us...

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us...

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us...