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
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. — Richard Wright Devotion Copy Share Image
Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out! — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...]. — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“The world of most men is given to them by their culture..” — Richard Wright Culture Copy Share Image
“And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.” — Richard Wright Horror Copy Share Image
“Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires” — Richard Wright Desire 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 Copy Share Image
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books,… — Richard Wright Book 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
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
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 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 Hunger 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
“You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated… — Richard Wright 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
“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the… — Richard Wright 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 Copy Share Image
Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South… — Richard Wright Aliens 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 Racism 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 looked at him and did not answer; there flashed through my mind a quick, running picture of all the squalid hovels… — Richard Wright 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
“If I were a member of the class that rules, I would post men in all the neighborhoods of the nation, not… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my… — Richard Wright Life 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 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
“Maybe man is nothing in particular,' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all.… — Richard Wright Dreams Copy Share Image
“The hostility of the whites had become so deeply implanted in my mind and feelings that it had lost direct connection with… — Richard Wright Hostility 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 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
“How could one find out about life when one was about to die?” — Richard Wright Death Copy Share Image
“... a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.” — Richard Wright Death Copy Share Image
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. — Richard Wright Books Copy Share Image
I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. — Richard Wright Bread Copy Share Image
“…I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial… — Richard Wright Black boy 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 Hate Copy Share Image
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