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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.

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.

Richard Wright
Hate, Play, Feelings
Richard Wright (1991). “Works”

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.

Richard Wright
Believe, Feelings, Different
Richard Wright (1991). “Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider”

I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.

Richard Wright
Hurt, Hate, Feelings
Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.

Richard Wright
Believe, Character, Feelings
Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.393, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.

Richard Wright
Drama, Feelings, Answers
Richard Wright (1945). “Black boy: a record of childhood and youth”

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