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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I 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 of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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We really wanted to play hard because of Clay after he got injured. And everybody really took it personal because he's the leader of our defense.
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You'll be amazed how far your money will go,
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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
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I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.
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We're not sure how long it will be before Willie can join us because of the community work, but we plan to stick with him because we think he is a decent lad who just got in with the wrong crowd.
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He has signed a contract with us and I heard on Monday that his work permit has been received. We were expecting him to join us at any time.
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We knew about that. We want to get him over to join up with the squad and he can travel back for the court case.
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We could speculate all day as to what they talked about.
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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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Nobody has any confidence. Nobody wants to buy anything and if they do buy anything they're wrong within about 10 minutes. It's fairly gloomy.
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I would do anything to have a recording of that two-and-a-half hour meeting.