“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
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
“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
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
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. — Richard Wright Books 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
“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
“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
“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
“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of… — Richard Wright Emotional life Copy Share Image
“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the… — Richard Wright Acquisition-culture Copy Share Image
“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me… — Richard Wright Air 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
“..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
“The hostility of the whites had become so deeply implanted in my mind and feelings that it had lost direct connection with… — Richard Wright Psychology 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
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
“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
“I looked at him and did not answer; there flashed through my mind a quick, running picture of all the squalid hovels… — Richard Wright Psychology Copy Share Image
Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books... — Richard Wright Book 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
“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
I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South… — Richard Wright Aliens Copy Share Image
