10 notable quotes by richard wright
- Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
- Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
- It 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.
- If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
- I 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.
- Hunger 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.
- There 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.
- Held at bay by the hate of others, preoccupied with his own feelings, he was continuously at war with reality.
- My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it.
- Wherever I found religion in my life I found strife, the attempt of one individual or group to rule another in the name of God. The naked will to power seemed always to walk in the wake of a hymn.
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