"The artist must bow to the monster of…" — Richard Wright

"The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination."

— Richard Wright

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38 Quotes by Richard Wright

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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather…
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a…
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression…
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things…
Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't.…
Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up…
I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was…
It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive…
I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied…

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
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