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Brief author info: Richard Wright (1908-1960) American novelist, essayist, poet, dramatist, and short story writer; advocated racial tolerance; presented harsh realities of racism; famed for novel Native Son, one of the strongest works on the plight of African Americans.

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Freedom belongs to the strong.

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The world changes, but men are always the same.

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

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Am I African? What would my feelings be when I looked into the black face of the African, feeling that maybe his great-great-great-grandfather had sold my great-great-great-grandfather into slavery?

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

- Soren Kierkegaard

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Before God we are all equally wise-equally foolish.

- Albert Einstein

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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

- Walt Disney

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

- Maya Angelou

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Never have a companion who casts you in the shade.

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