Richard Wright Quotes
If You've A Notion Of What Man's Heart Is, Wouldn't You Say That Maybe The Whole Effort Of Man On Earth To Build A Civilization Is Simply Man's Frantic And Frightened Attempt To Hide Himself From Himself? That There Is A Part Of Man That Man Wants To Reject? That Man Wants To Keep From Knowing What He Is? That He Wants To Protect Himself From Seeing That He Is Something Awful? And That This 'awful' Part Of Himself Might Not Be As Awful As He Thinks, But He Finds It Too Strange And He Does Not Know What To Do With It? We Talk About What To Do With The Atom Bomb ... But Man's Heart, His Spirit Is The Deadliest Thing In Creation. Are Not All Cultures And Civilizations Just Screens Which Men Have Used To Divide Themselves, To Put Between That Part Of Themselves Which They Are Afraid Of And That Part Of Themselves Which They Wish, In Their Deep Timidity, To Try To Preserve? Are Not All Of Man's Efforts At Order An Attempt To Still Man's Fear Of Himself?
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