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> [“Nigger, you sure ought to be glad it was us you talked to that way. You’re a lucky bastard, ’cause if you’d said that to some other white man, you might’ve been a dead nigger now.” I was learning rapidly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/nigger-you-sure-ought-to-be-glad-it-was-us-you-talked-to-that-way-you/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

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> [“Humnnn,” he grunted, then laughed. “A dog bite can’t hurt a nigger.” “It’s swelling and it hurts,” I said. “If it bothers you, let me know,” he said. “But I never saw a dog yet that could really hurt a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/humnnn-he-grunted-then-laughed-a-dog-bite-can-t-hurt-a-nigger-it-s/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

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## Other authors on Nigger

## More by Richard Wright

> [“My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/my-days-and-nights-were-one-long-quiet-continuously-contained-dream/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/it-made-me-love-talk-that-sought-answers-to-questions-that-could-help/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [“Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/having-been-thrust-out-of-the-world-because-of-my-race-i-had-accepted/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/he-had-lived-and-acted-on-the-assumption-that-he-was-alone-and-now-he/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/reading-was-like-a-drug-a-dope-the-novels-created-moods-in-which-i/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/it-would-have-been-impossible-for-me-to-have-told-anyone-what-i/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/if-you-ve-a-notion-of-what-man-s-heart-is-wouldn-t-you-say-that-maybe/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/from-far-beyond-the-horizons-that-bound-this-bleak-plantation-there/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [“Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same dreams as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/color-hate-defined-the-place-of-black-life-as-below-that-of-white/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/these-fantasies-were-no-longer-a-reflection-of-my-reaction-to-the/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/their-constant-outward-looking-their-mania-for-radios-cars-and-a/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [“absolute power is corrupting”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/absolute-power-is-corrupting/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/in-me-was-shaping-a-yearning-for-a-kind-of-consciousness-a-mode-of/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/the-impulse-to-dream-was-slowly-beaten-out-of-me-by-experience-now-it/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

> [“..when I tried to talk to him I realized that, though ties of blood made us kin, though I could see a shadow of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wright/when-i-tried-to-talk-to-him-i-realized-that-though-ties-of-blood-made/)

[Richard Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wright/)

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