Quotes by : Richard Wright

I feel that for white America to understand the significance of the problem of the Negro will take a....

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

Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them....

Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

I felt that it was unfair that my lack of a few pounds of flesh should deprive me of a chance at a good....

Maybe man is nothing in particular,' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may be....

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...

He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What....

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