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
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
“They lived on the surface of their days; their smiles were surface smiles, and their tears were surface tears. Negroes lived a… — Richard Wright 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
“He had been defeated by that which he had sought to destroy.” — Richard Wright Failure 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 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
“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
there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together… — Richard Wright Cry 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
“We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.” — Richard Wright Ancestors 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
“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
“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
“Held at bay by the hate of others, preoccupied with his own feelings, he was continuously at war with reality.” — Richard Wright War Copy Share Image
Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented. — Richard Wright Evidence 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
“Bob had been caught by the white death, the threat of which hung over every male black in the South. I had… — Richard Wright Black boy Copy Share Image
I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it — Richard Wright Forget Copy Share Image
Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do… — Richard Wright Black Copy Share Image
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of… — Richard Wright Certain Copy Share Image
“At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that… — Richard Wright Education Copy Share Image
“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner” — Richard Wright Books Copy Share Image
It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something… — Richard Wright Believe Copy Share Image
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made… — Richard Wright Baskets Copy Share Image
