No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
RICHARD WRIGHTHe had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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The holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.
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Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
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A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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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
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.
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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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