Richard Wright Short Quotes

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The moment we act as if it's true, then it's true.

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You are your own law, so you'll be your own judge.

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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

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I am nobody:
A red sinking autumn sun
Took my name away.

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As I read, my ears are opened to the magic of the spoken word.

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With a twitching nose
A dog reads a telegram
On a wet tree trunk.

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Burning out its time,
and timing its own burning,
one lonely candle.

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A slow autumn rain:
The sad eyes of my mother
Fill a lonely night.

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I give permission
For this slow spring rain to soak
The violet beds.

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Burning autumn leaves,
I yearn to make the bonfire
Bigger and bigger.

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In a drizzling rain,
In a flower shop's doorway,
A girl sells herself

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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

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Ah cant see white n Ah cant see black, he said. Ah sees rich men n Ah sees po men.

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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

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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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A sleepless spring night:
Yearning for what I never had
And for what never was.

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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

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Blue-jazz was the scornful gesture of men turned ecstatic in their state of rejection.

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How can the spirit of the Enlightenment and the Reformation be extended now to all men?

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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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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it.

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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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The plots and stories in the novels did not interest me so much as the point of view revealed.

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I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...

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Don't think I'm so odd and strange... I'm not.... I'm legion... I've lived alone, but I'm everywhere.

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But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target

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Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it.

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I paced the floor, knowing that all I possessed were words and dim knowledge that my country had shown me no examples of how to live a human life.

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We live here and they live here. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like living in jail.

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I soon made myself a nuisance by asking far too many questions of everybody. Every happening in the neighborhood, no matter how trivial, became my business.

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