You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man...
Richard WrightTags: inquiry repentance decency gratefulness
I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...
Richard WrightTags: self-worth epiphany realization feeling-alive fighting-for-self
I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about. I swore to myself that if I ever wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears.
Richard WrightTags: goals mistakes facing-the-truth
And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.
Richard WrightTags: livlihood
How could one find out about life when one was about to die?
Richard WrightTags: native-son
... a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.
Richard WrightWhenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...
Richard WrightSo he held toward them an attitude of iron reserve; he lived with them, but behind a wall, a curtain. And toward himself he was even more exacting.
Richard Wright....I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.
Richard WrightTags: racism richard-wright black-boy
Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.
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