Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

- 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…

- Richard Wright

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

- 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 …

- 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

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em.

- Richard Wright

All literature is protest.

- Richard Wright

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

- Richard Wright

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human bein…

- Richard Wright