“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
“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
“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
“176 Winter rain at night Sweetening the taste of bread And spicing the soup.” — Richard Wright Haiku 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
“You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated… — Richard Wright Decency 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
“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
“...to see was not to control, that self-understanding was far short of self-mastery. He was afraid of himself.” — Richard Wright Self-realizations 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
“Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires” — Richard Wright Desire 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
“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
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
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. — Richard Wright Hearts Copy Share Image
