Emotionally True

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, Black Boy

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].
― Richard Wright, Black Boy