...it was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder it was a simple urgent matter of public pride a matter of how much I had in common with other people.

...it was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder it was a simple urgent matter of public pride a matter of how much I had in common with other people.
Richard Wright

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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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Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of this black lizard to keep him from scuttling on his belly farther over the earth and spitting forth his venom of death
- Richard Wright

...it was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder it was a simple urgent matter of public pride a matter of how much I had in common with other people. Richard Wright

...it was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder it was a simple urgent matter of public pride a matter of how much I had in common with other people.
Richard Wright