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