Frases de Richard Nathaniel Wright (131 citações, página 5)

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“Ninguém sabe quando algum pequeno abalo que perturbe o delicado equilíbrio entre a ordem social e as ambições desmedidas derrubará os arranha-céus de nossas cidades.”

Richard Nathaniel Wright

Fonte: Citações da Cultura Universal - Página 17, Alberto J. G. Villamarín, Editora AGE Ltda, 2002, ISBN 8574970891, 9788574970899

Richard Nathaniel Wright: Frases em inglês

“I paced the floor, knowing that all I possessed were words and dim knowledge that my country had shown me no examples of how to live a human life.”

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Richard Wright livro Black Boy

Black Boy (1945)

“They had rejected the state of things as they were, and that seemed to me to be the first step toward embracing a creative attitude toward life. I felt that it was not until one wanted the world to be different that one could look at the world with will and emotion. But these men had rejected what was before their eyes without quite knowing what they had rejected and why.”

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Richard Wright livro Black Boy

Black Boy (1945)

“In buoying me up, reading also cast me down, made me see what was possible, what I had missed.”

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Richard Wright livro Black Boy

Black Boy (1945)

“It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself. All my life had shaped me for the realism, the naturalism of the modern novel, and I could not read enough of them.”

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Richard Wright livro Black Boy

Black Boy (1945)

“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. But I could not conquer my sense of guilt, my feeling that the white men around me knew that I was changing, that I had begun to regard them differently.”

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Richard Wright livro Black Boy

Black Boy (1945)

“But full emotional and intellectual belief never came. Perhaps if I had caught my first sense of life from the church I would have been moved to complete acceptance, but the hymns and sermons of God came into my heart only long after my personality had been shaped and formed by uncharted conditions of life. I felt that I had in me a sense of living as deep as that which the church was trying to give me, and in the end I remained basically unaffected.”

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Richard Wright livro Black Boy

Black Boy (1945)

“They could not have known that Ella’s whispered story of deception and murder had been the first experience in my life that had elicited from me a total emotional response. No words or punishment could have possibly made me doubt. I had tasted what to me was life, and I would have more of it, somehow, someway.”

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Black Boy (1945)

“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was a black peasant who had gone to the city seeking life, but who had failed in the city; a black peasant whose life had been hopelessly snarled in the city, and who had at last fled the city—that same city which had lifted me in its burning arms and borne me toward alien and undreamed of shores of knowing.”

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Black Boy (1945)

“I was overwhelmed to realize that he could never understand me or the scalding experiences that had swept me beyond his life and into an area of living that he could never know.”

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Black Boy (1945)

“I memorized it word for word after having heard it but once. Yet, despite my retentive memory, I found it impossible to recite when I went back into the classroom.”

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Black Boy (1945)

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