Richard Wright Quotes About Feelings

• 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.

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  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.393, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.

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  Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback

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• It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

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  Richard Wright (1991). “Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider”

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• At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.

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  Richard Wright (2017). “Black Boy”, p.99, Random House

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• They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.

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  Richard Wright (1991). “Works”

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• It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.

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  Richard Wright (1945). “Black boy: a record of childhood and youth”

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