Quotes by : Richard Wright

If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth....

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

If only ten or twenty Negroes had been put into slavery, we would call it injustice, but there were hundreds....

Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly....

The world of most men is given to them by their culture..

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

Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days....

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly,....

Out of the magazines I read came a passionate call for the experiences of the disinherited, and there....

If you posses enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find that you are not alone.