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 WRIGHTWe smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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He 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.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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