“I wanted to try to build a bridge of words between me and that world outside, that world which was so distant… — Richard Wright Outside world 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
It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something… — Richard Wright 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
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — 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
“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
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
“...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
“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
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that… — Richard Wright Alive 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 you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to… — Richard Wright Atom bomb Copy Share Image
“With ever watchful eyes and bearing scars, visible and invisible, I headed North, full of a hazy notion that life could be… — Richard Wright Fear Copy Share Image
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“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
“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
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“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
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“..when I tried to talk to him I realized that, though ties of blood made us kin, though I could see a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of… — Richard Wright Emotional life 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
“Nigger, you sure ought to be glad it was us you talked to that way. You’re a lucky bastard, ’cause if you’d… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms… — Richard Wright 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
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“(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live… — Richard Wright Goals Copy Share Image
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“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
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