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Book: Native Son
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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 _ 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 _ Native Son
You're trying to believe in yourself. And every time you try to find a way to live, your own mind stands in the way. You know why that is? It's because others have said you were bad and they made you live in bad conditions. When a man hears that over and over and looks about him and sees that his life is bad, he begins to doubt his own mind. His feelings drag him forward and his mind, full of what others say about him, tells him to go back"
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Richard Wright _ Native Son
It was fear that had made him fight Gus in the poolroom. If he had felt certain of himself and of Gus, he would not have fought.
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Richard Wright _ Native Son
If you think I'm telling tall tales, get chummy with some white cop who works in a Black Belt district and ask him for the lowdown. When
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Richard Wright _ Native Son
Bigger, however, was not an exclusively black phenomenon. Wright himself declared that the turning point for him in his understanding of social reality-"the pivot of my life"-was his discovery of the ubiquitousness of Bigger: "there were literally millions of him everywhere.
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Richard Wright _ Native Son
His jobs in the South were marked by harassment by whites and by his own disdain for what segregation and racism had done to distort the humanity of his fellow blacks, as he saw it.
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Richard Wright _ Native Son
how oppression seems to hinder and stifle in the victim those very qualities of character which are so essential for an effective struggle against the oppressor. Then
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Richard Wright _ Native Son
There are times, Your Honor, when reality bears features of such an impellingly moral complexion that it is impossible to follow the hewn path of expediency. There are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed.
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Richard Wright _ Native Son
It's because others have said you were bad and they made you live in bad conditions. When a man hears that over and over and looks about him and sees that his life is bad, he begins to doubt his own mind.
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