I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em... — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger of life that gnaws in… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Wherever I found religion in my life I found strife, the attempt of one individual or group to rule another in the… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Slowly he lifted his hands in the darkness and held them in mid-air, the fingers spread weakly open. If he reached out… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“With ever watchful eyes and bearing scars, visible and invisible, I headed North, full of a hazy notion that life could be… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“was emotionally true because I had already grown to feel that there existed men against whom I was powerless, men who could… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“My mother's suffering grew into a symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful,… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it.” — Richard Wright Copy Share
It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense… — Richard Wright Copy Share
“Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it” — Richard Wright Copy Share
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had… — Richard Wright Copy Share
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. — Richard Wright Copy Share
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a… — Richard Wright Copy Share
“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a… — Richard Wright Copy Share
“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was… — Richard Wright Copy Share
“Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same dreams as… — Richard Wright Copy Share
“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional… — Richard Wright Copy Share
“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of… — Richard Wright Copy Share
“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said… — Richard Wright Copy Share
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways… — Richard Wright Copy Share
“..when I tried to talk to him I realized that, though ties of blood made us kin, though I could see a shadow of… — Richard Wright Copy Share
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