It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...

Richard Wright

Tag: native-son



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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?

Richard Wright

Tag: native-son richard-wright the-outsider



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The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

Richard Wright

Tag: religion race american african-american us native-son



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How could one find out about life when one was about to die?

Richard Wright

Tag: native-son



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