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
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
“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
“Wherever I found religion in my life I found strife, the attempt of one individual or group to rule another in the… — Richard Wright Life 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 southern whites would rather have had Negroes who stole, work for them than Negroes who knew, however dimly, the worth of… — Richard Wright Racism 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
Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your… — Richard Wright Black Copy Share Image
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside… — Richard Wright Bleak 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
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of… — Richard Wright Accounts Copy Share Image
“Every movement of his body is an unconscious protest. Every desire, every dream, no matter how intimate or personal, is a plot… — Richard Wright Dreams 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
“I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of… — Richard Wright Book Copy Share Image
“I forged more notes and my trips to the library became frequent. Reading grew into a passion. My first serious novel was… — Richard Wright Books Copy Share Image
“One walks along a street and strays unknowingly from one's path; one then looks up and suddenly for those familiar landmarks of… — Richard Wright Lost Copy Share Image
“Not to know the end of the tale filled me with a sense of emptiness, loss. I hungered for the sharp, frightening,… — Richard Wright Books Copy Share Image
“I have found that to tell the truth is the hardest thing on earth. Harder than fighting in a war, harder than… — Richard Wright Hardest thing Copy Share Image
“My mother's suffering grew into a symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful,… — Richard Wright Life Copy Share Image
“(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live… — Richard Wright Goals Copy Share Image
Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms… — Richard Wright Aggressive 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 Drunkard Copy Share Image
“Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but… — Richard Wright Civil rights 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
“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
“Nigger, you sure ought to be glad it was us you talked to that way. You’re a lucky bastard, ’cause if you’d… — Richard Wright Nigger Copy Share Image
“176 Winter rain at night Sweetening the taste of bread And spicing the soup.” — Richard Wright Haiku Copy Share Image
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. — Richard Wright Hearts Copy Share Image
“If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone.” — Richard Wright Coming out of the closet 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
“How could one find out about life when one was about to die?” — Richard Wright Death Copy Share Image
“The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.” — Richard Wright African american Copy Share Image
“You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated… — Richard Wright Asked Copy Share Image
“would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger of life that gnaws in… — Richard Wright Life Copy Share Image
