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Richard Wright _ Native Son
Pale yellow sunshine fell through high windows and slashed the air.
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Richard Wright _ Native Son
Life had made the plot over and over again, to the extent that I knew it by heart.
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Richard Wright _ Black Boy
If laying down my life could stop the suffering in the world I'd do it. But I don't believe anything can stop it.
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Richard Wright _ Black Boy
Ovunque, nella mia vita, io abbia incontrato la religione, ho trovato la discordia, il tentativo di un individuo o di un gruppo di dominare un altro in nome di Dio.
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Richard Wright _ Haiku: The Last Poems of an
Over spring mountainsA star ends the paragraphOf a thunderstorm.
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Richard Wright _ Native Son
As long as he could remember, he had never been responsible to anyone. The moment a situation became so that it exacted something of him, he rebelled. That was the way he lived; he passed his days trying to defeat or gratify powerful impulses in a world he feared. Outside
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Richard Wright _ Native Son
in a boy like Bigger, young, unschooled, whose subjective life was clothed in the tattered rags of American "culture," this primitive fear and ecstasy were naked, exposed, unprotected by religion or a framework of government or a scheme of society whose final faiths would gain his love and trust; unprotected by trade or profession, faith or belief; opened to every trivial blast of daily or hourly circumstance. There
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Richard Wright _ Black Boy
I had never in my life been abused by whites, but I had already become as conditioned to their existence as though I had been the victim of a thousand lynchings.
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Richard Wright _ Haiku: The Last Poems of an
Even the cat smilesWhen the hen swallows waterWith back-tilted head."
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Richard Wright _ Haiku: The Last Poems of an
That abandoned house,With its yard of fallen leaves,In the setting sun.
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Richard Wright _ Black Boy
I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. 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 _ Haiku: The Last Poems of an
Sweep away the cloudsAnd let a dome of blue skyGive this sea a name!
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