Richard WrightI didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em. ✨ Richard Wright (1957). Native Son, p.392, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP373Life
Richard WrightPity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have underst… ▶332Death
Richard WrightIt 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.355LifeReading
Richard WrightI 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 a… ▶324Life
Richard WrightIf a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie. ✨ Richard Wright (1991). Works: Later works: Black boy (Ame… ▶368DeathTruth
Richard WrightMen can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. ✨ Richard Wright (1957). Native Son, p.366, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP315Reading
Richard WrightI 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, kill … ▶261Time
Richard WrightIs not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say tha… ▶339HumanityLifeLove
Richard WrightLove grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. ✨ Richard Wright (1957). Native Son, p.368, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP285LifeLove
Richard WrightAnything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made… ▶308Politics
Richard WrightBut the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target ✨ Richard Wright (2009). Uncle Tom's Children, p.30,… ▶231Love
Richard WrightIt 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. Whenever my environment ha… ▶275LifeReading
Richard WrightIn me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had… ▶242DeathLifeLove
Richard WrightI was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink… ▶287Reading
Richard WrightIt 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… ▶287HumanityLifeLove
Richard WrightMake up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out! ✨ Richard Wright (1997). Richard Wright Reader232ReadingThought
Richard WrightI did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...]. ✨ Richard Wright (2017). Black Boy, p.71, Random House3010Truth
Richard WrightWhenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books. ✨ Richard Wright (1998). Black Boy, Turtleback194Reading
Richard WrightAll literature is protest.183Reading
Richard Wrightthere 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 ✨ Richard Wright (1987). Nati… ▶195LifeSadnessTime
Richard WrightI was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it ✨ Richard Wright (1998). Black Boy, Turtleback2410Reading
Richard WrightHunger 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. ✨ Richard Wr… ▶141Politics
Richard WrightAt 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 was to make me skeptical of ev… ▶164Life
Richard WrightThey 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 not know why; they are powerles… ▶131Politics
Richard WrightHe 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. No matter how much he would long for them to … ▶131Reading
Richard WrightIt was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different. ✨ Richa… ▶2110Reading
Richard WrightI 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 something to redeem my being alive… ▶143HumanityLife
Richard WrightViolence 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. … ▶1910HumanityReading
Richard WrightGoddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail. ✨ Nativ… ▶135Sadness
Richard WrightReading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. ✨ Richard Wright (1997). Richard Wright Reader179Reading
