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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All he knows is he gives the money to Lance (Malone). He presumes Lance is passing it on, rather than stealing it.
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It's not without its hiccups, ... You don't go in expecting things to always work smoothly, but Romanians are geniuses at what we might consider to be jury-rigged solutions. The power plant might be held together by paper clips and bubble gum, but it works.
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As a rule, memories fade with the passage of time, instead of remembering with specificity but providing no dates or times as backup. It was the first time, to our knowledge, these things have ever been said.
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In my judgment, he really did need an attorney.
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I think the difference between our defense from last year and this year is that last year we had big, strong linemen, and this year our linemen are smaller, but we make up for it with our speed.
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They record that which helps them and not that which doesn't.
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All the formalities, including a work permit and a Tongan passport, have been completed and he is all set to join us in the near future.
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I would do anything to have a recording of that two-and-a-half hour meeting.
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First thing is, are you dealing with a liar or not?
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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...