Quotes by : Richard Wright

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather....

...the real danger does not stem from those who seek to grab their share of wealth through force, or....

They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives....

I would write:"The soft melting hunk of butter trickled in gold down the stringy grooves of the split....

You can't make me do nothing but die!

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face....

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.

I went to work, but the mood of the book would not die; it lingered, coloring everything I saw, heard,....

We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.

If I were a member of the class that rules, I would post men in all the neighborhoods of the nation,....