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

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 quotes: Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Wright quotes: You look like an accident going somewhere to happen

You look like an accident going somewhere to happen

Richard Wright quotes: 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.

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 quotes: How could one find out about life when one was about to die?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.

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

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

Richard Wright quotes: 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.

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 quotes: To see was not to control, that self-understanding was far short of self-mastery. He was afraid of himself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Wright quotes: 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

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 quotes: Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Wright quotes: 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.

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 quotes: A knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.

A knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.

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

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

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

It's becoming very much like 1979 again.

Richard Wright quotes: absolute power is corrupting

absolute power is corrupting

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

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

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

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 quotes: And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't make me do nothing but die!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Wright quotes: All literature is protest.

All literature is protest.

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

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 quotes: I had tasted what to me was life, and I would have more of it, somehow, someway.

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: 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 ...

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 ...