Richard Wright Quote

I knew what was wrong with me, but I could not correct it. The words and actions ofwhite people were baffling signs to me. I was living in a culture and not a civilization and Icould learn how that culture worked only by living with it. Misreading the reactions of whitesaround me made me say and do the wrong things. In my dealing with whites I was consciousonly of what was happening at a given moment. I had to keep remembering what others tookfor granted; I had to think out what others felt.