Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everythin…

Richard Wright
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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning. ✨ Richard Wright (1991). Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider
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