Racism Quotes by Richard Wright

8 Racism quotes by Richard Wright

Richard Wright’s eight short observations on racism echo his literary depth in a compact form. Though brief, each line carries the weight of his experience, offering a quick yet meaningful glimpse into his thoughts.

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“Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what…

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“Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same…

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“…I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial…

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“(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live…

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“The southern whites would rather have had Negroes who stole, work for them than Negroes who knew, however dimly, the worth of…

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“We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.”

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“A dread of white people now came to live permanently in my feelings and imagination. As the war drew to a close,…

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“There were many more folk ditties, some mean, others filthy, all of them cruel. No one ever thought of questioning our right…

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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense…

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“Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it”

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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

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“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…

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“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was…

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“Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same dreams as…

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“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional…

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“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…

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“absolute power is corrupting”

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“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said…

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The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways…

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“..when I tried to talk to him I realized that, though ties of blood made us kin, though I could see a shadow of…

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