Richard Wright
Richard Wright
Influential African-American author of Black Boy, Native Son, and Uncle Tom's Children. His work helped improve race relations in the 20th century.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 September 1908
CityRoxie, MS
CountryUnited States of America
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There's one word for it -- carnage. It's horrible.
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The FBI agent claimed he knew of such a call, and he wanted you to admit it.
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They didn't even know about the ski school until Mary told them. They didn't even know about that.
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It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds.
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Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.
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She wanted to tell her side of the story, but they (prosecutors) were hamstringing me.
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You'll be amazed how far your money will go,
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness
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Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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Violence 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.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...
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Goddamnit, 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.
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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 not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.