I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. 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.
Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented. - Richard Wright
Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
- Richard Wright
But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target - Richard Wright
But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. - Richard Wright
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do some… - Richard Wright
I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do some…
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that … - Richard Wright
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that …
Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books. - Richard Wright
Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em. - Richard Wright
I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em.
All literature is protest. - Richard Wright
All literature is protest.
They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do n… - Richard Wright
They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do n…
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