Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

Quote by Richard Wright

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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an...

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an...

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a...

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a...

It's becoming very much like 1979 again.

It's becoming very much like 1979 again.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an...

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an...

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged...

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged...

The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into...

The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into...

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of...

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of...

I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to...

I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to...

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in...

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in...

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel...

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel...

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are...

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are...

The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province...

The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province...

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favorites

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favorites

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I...

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I...

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at...

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at...

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...