Richard Wright Quotes

No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.

— David Gilmour

“Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".”

— David L. Cohn

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner”

— Richard Wright

In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded…

— Darryl Pinckney

I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity…

— Kola Boof

Mine is, after all, the generation that had come to maturity drinking in the forebodings of the Silones, Koestlers, and Richard Wrights.…

— Lorraine Hansberry

Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard…

— William Upski Wimsatt

As much as I love to slay a red carpet hitting the ground running with 'Beale Street' and 'Native Son,' representing two…

— KiKi Layne

I think I was drawn to black culture by the same things that have been drawing the entire world to it since…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of…

— Ishmael Reed

If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston,…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“During the racial confrontations of the 1960s, An American Dilemma encountered rising criticism from activists and scholars who disputed Myrdal's optimism about…

— James T. Patterson

“You can’t take a class if taking a class feels like it’s going to kill you. Faking it never works. If you…

— Cheryl Strayed

“In my utopia, human solidarity would be seen not as a fact to be recognised by clearing away "prejudice" or burrowing down…

— Richard M. Rorty