“The world of most men is given to them by their culture..” — Richard Wright Culture Copy Share Image
“He had been defeated by that which he had sought to destroy.” — Richard Wright Defeated Copy Share Image
“We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.” — Richard Wright Ancestors Copy Share Image
“There was a hunger for power reaching out of the senses of man and trying to say something in the symbols of… — Richard Wright Hunger Copy Share Image
Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented. — Richard Wright Evidence Copy Share Image
Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books... — Richard Wright Book 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 Bed Copy Share Image
“Men are inventing ideas every day to justify for themselves and others their actions and needs.” — Richard Wright Every day Copy Share Image
“... a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.” — Richard Wright Death Copy Share Image
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a… — Richard Wright Crime Copy Share Image
“The thing to do was to act just like others acted, live like they lived, and while they were not looking, do… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“…I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial… — Richard Wright Black boy Copy Share Image
But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target — Richard Wright Color 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
“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I… — Richard Wright Darkness 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
Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night… — Richard Wright Elbows 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 Life Copy Share Image
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance… — Richard Wright Believe 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
“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my… — Richard Wright Life 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 Negroes 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 Tried Talk 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
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What… — Richard Wright Able Copy Share Image
“The hostility of the whites had become so deeply implanted in my mind and feelings that it had lost direct connection with… — Richard Wright Hostility Copy Share Image
“Maybe man is nothing in particular,' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all.… — Richard Wright Dreams 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 Abiding Copy Share Image
“I knew what was wrong with me, but I could not correct it. The words and actions of white people were baffling… — Richard Wright White people Copy Share Image
“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… — Richard Wright Atom bomb 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
“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
“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
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
“Held at bay by the hate of others, preoccupied with his own feelings, he was continuously at war with reality.” — Richard Wright Hate 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
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
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