Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
RICHARD WRIGHTNo 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.
More Richard Wright Quotes
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They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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All literature is protest.
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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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Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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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The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts.
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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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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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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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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