Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
RICHARD WRIGHTI did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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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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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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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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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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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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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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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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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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