In his essay "I Choose Exile," Richard Wright writes, "It was only in America where so much freedom is lacking that one hears long and impassioned arguments about freedom ...
"It is like listening to a starving man tells of his need for food."
I honestly agree with what Wright is saying because you never do hear a group of Americans agreeing on a certain thing! There’s always debates and disagreements with anything that's has too do with everything here in the states! I think that every word he Say's in this little quote is so true, when do you talk about freedom in America without someone making it a heated (impassioned) disagreement? Although there is not no right and wrong to what one really thinks about "Freedom” it is true what Wright is saying; that in it all there is freedom lacking in the states simply because of one's mix feeling on this topic.
To me I think America does lack certain freedom's & that would be the the mix up of what everything means ; like what the government really means; what the freedom of speech laws really mean ; things of that natural . Let me explain a little more; one has freedom of speech correct but it's really censored correct?? You can’t go in the streets & curse a police officer off and expect to get away with it! Correct! There is freedom here in the states but it's a limited source. Yes i honestly thing people from different parts of the world have different ideas on what freedom means simply because of where they come from & how there part of the world understands the word FREEDOM . Alot of people share so much mix feeling on this word & Wright was one of them .
