“Men are inventing ideas every day to justify for themselves and others their actions and needs.” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“... a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.” — Richard Wright Death Copy Share Image
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. — Richard Wright Books Copy Share Image
“How could one find out about life when one was about to die?” — Richard Wright Death Copy Share Image
I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.” — Richard Wright Horror Copy Share Image
“The world of most men is given to them by their culture..” — Richard Wright Culture Copy Share Image
“The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.” — Richard Wright African american Copy Share Image
“Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what… — Richard Wright Destiny Copy Share Image
“...it was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder; it was a simple, urgent matter of… — Richard Wright Pride Copy Share Image
Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“...to see was not to control, that self-understanding was far short of self-mastery. He was afraid of himself.” — Richard Wright Self Copy Share Image
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books,… — Richard Wright Book 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… — Richard Wright Dream Copy Share Image
If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come.” — Richard Wright Creative Copy Share Image
“If the stars twinkled more than usual on any given night, it meant that the angels in heaven were happy and were… — Richard Wright Angels In Heaven Copy Share Image
“They lived on the surface of their days; their smiles were surface smiles, and their tears were surface tears. Negroes lived a… — 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 Books Copy Share Image
“..when I tried to talk to him I realized that, though ties of blood made us kin, though I could see a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“...I wish I could be an example to you..." I knew that I had conquered him, had rid myself of him mentally… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of… — Richard Wright Death Copy Share Image
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What… — 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 Alive 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 Education 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 Fear 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 Life Copy Share Image
“I did not act in this fashion deliberately; I did not prefer this kind of relationship with people. I wanted a life… — Richard Wright Hope Copy Share Image
“If I were a member of the class that rules, I would post men in all the neighborhoods of the nation, not… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made… — 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 Age Copy Share Image
“But rape was not what one did to women. Rape was what one felt when one's back was against the wall and… — Richard Wright Day by day Copy Share Image
“Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires” — Richard Wright Desire Copy Share Image
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. — Richard Wright Bread Copy Share Image
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. — Richard Wright Devotion Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em... — Richard Wright Alive Copy Share Image
Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out! — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...]. — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that… — Richard Wright African american 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 Life Copy Share Image
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