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
“There were many more folk ditties, some mean, others filthy, all of them cruel. No one ever thought of questioning our right… — Richard Wright Cultural heritage Copy Share Image
They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and… — Richard Wright Blind Copy Share Image
“Cross felt that at the heart of all political movements the concept of the basic inequality of man was enthroned and practiced,… — Richard Wright Politics 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
“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 could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that… — Richard Wright Endure Copy Share Image
“If the stars twinkled more than usual on any given night, it meant that the angels in heaven were happy and were… — Richard Wright Angels In Heaven 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 Books 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
“My imaginings, of course, had no objective value whatever. My spontaneous fantasies lived in my mind because I felt completely helpless in… — Richard Wright Fantasies 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
“If I were a member of the class that rules, I would post men in all the neighborhoods of the nation, not… — Richard Wright Acquisition-culture 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
“My mother's suffering grew into as symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful,… — Richard Wright Men and women Copy Share Image
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those… — Richard Wright Age Copy Share Image
“was emotionally true because I had already grown to feel that there existed men against whom I was powerless, men who could… — Richard Wright Deception 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
“Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires” — Richard Wright Desire Copy Share Image
“And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. — Richard Wright Devotion Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em... — Richard Wright Alive Copy Share Image
I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...]. — Richard Wright Stories Copy Share Image
Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out! — Richard Wright Half Copy Share Image
“I wanted to try to build a bridge of words between me and that world outside, that world which was so distant… — Richard Wright 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
“...I wish I could be an example to you..." I knew that I had conquered him, had rid myself of him mentally… — Richard Wright Example Spat Copy Share Image
“Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of… — Richard Wright Death Copy Share Image
It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a… — Richard Wright Alive 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
I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words… — Richard Wright Another chance Copy Share Image
“A dread of white people now came to live permanently in my feelings and imagination. As the war drew to a close,… — Richard Wright Fear 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
“I grew silent and reserved as the nature of the world in which I lived became plain and undeniable; the bleakness of… — Richard Wright Nature Copy Share Image
“He lay still, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly before him, and drifted into dreams of his problems, compulsively living out dialogues, summing… — Richard Wright Drama Copy Share Image
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