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
“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
“(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
“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
“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
“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
“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
What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was… — Richard Wright Being hated 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
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
“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
“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
“The world of most men is given to them by their culture..” — Richard Wright Culture 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
“...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
“... a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.” — Richard Wright Death 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 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 Saturday night 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
“Humnnn,” he grunted, then laughed. “A dog bite can’t hurt a nigger.” “It’s swelling and it hurts,” I said. “If it bothers… — Richard Wright Black boy 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
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
“There was a hunger for power reaching out of the senses of man and trying to say something in the symbols of… — Richard Wright 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
