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I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination. — Richard Wright

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. — Richard Wright

How soon will someone speak the word the resentful millions will understand: the word to be, to act, to live? — Richard Wright

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Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come. — Richard Wright

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us. — Richard Wright

You look like an accident going somewhere to happen — Richard Wright

The thing to do was to act just like others acted, live like they lived, and while they were not looking, do what you wanted. — Richard Wright

How could one find out about life when one was about to die? — Richard Wright

Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out! — Richard Wright

Held at bay by the hate of others, preoccupied with his own feelings, he was continuously at war with reality. — Richard Wright

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em ... — Richard Wright

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it — Richard Wright

He did not like me and I did not like him, though I tried harder than he to conceal my dislike. — Richard Wright

Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. — Richard Wright

If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone. — Richard Wright

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. — Richard Wright

To see was not to control, that self-understanding was far short of self-mastery. He was afraid of himself. — Richard Wright

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. — Richard Wright

If you posses enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find that you are not alone. — Richard Wright

Public peace is the act of public trust; it is the faith that all are secure and will remain secure. — Richard Wright

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. — Richard Wright

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [ ... ]. — Richard Wright

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. — Richard Wright

I wanted to try to build a bridge of words between me and that world outside, that world which was so distant and elusive that it seemed unreal. — Richard Wright

He sat. The white cat still contemplated him with large, moist eyes. — Richard Wright

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die. — Richard Wright

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son". — David L. Cohn

It's becoming very much like 1979 again. — Richard Wright

Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires — Richard Wright

There are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed — Richard Wright

absolute power is corrupting — Richard Wright

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented. — Richard Wright

The impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. — Richard Wright

And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him. — Richard Wright

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books ... — Richard Wright

Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it — Richard Wright

So he held toward them an attitude of iron reserve; he lived with them, but behind a wall, a curtain. And toward himself he was even more exacting. — Richard Wright

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one. — Richard Wright

A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person. — Richard Wright

Men are inventing ideas every day to justify for themselves and others their actions and needs. — Richard Wright

You can't make me do nothing but die! — Richard Wright

But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target — Richard Wright

My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it. — Richard Wright

No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend. — David Gilmour

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. — Richard Wright

All literature is protest. — Richard Wright

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie. — Richard Wright

I had tasted what to me was life, and I would have more of it, somehow, someway. — Richard Wright

The world of most men is given to them by their culture.. — Richard Wright

There was a hunger for power reaching out of the senses of man and trying to say something in the symbols of action. — Richard Wright

A knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die. — Richard Wright

You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man ... — Richard Wright

He had been defeated by that which he had sought to destroy. — Richard Wright