I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [. … - Richard Wright

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It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.

Richard Wright

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [. . . ].

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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness

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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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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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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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