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.
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
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…
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. - Richard Wright
Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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
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 …
All literature is protest. - Richard Wright
All literature is protest.
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.
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
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…
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