“How could one find out about life when one was about to die?” — Richard Wright Life 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
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. — Richard Wright Devotion 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
“Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come.” — Richard Wright Creative 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
“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
“...I wish I could be an example to you..." I knew that I had conquered him, had rid myself of him mentally… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out! — Richard Wright Half Copy Share Image
“And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.” — Richard Wright 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
I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...]. — Richard Wright Stories 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
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
“My imaginings, of course, had no objective value whatever. My spontaneous fantasies lived in my mind because I felt completely helpless in… — Richard Wright Imagination 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
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
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
“So he held toward them an attitude of iron reserve; he lived with them, but behind a wall, a curtain. And toward… — Richard Wright 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
“was emotionally true because I had already grown to feel that there existed men against whom I was powerless, men who could… — Richard Wright Life Copy Share Image
