Richard Wright Quotes

“Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?”
― Richard Wright

“....I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.”
― Richard Wright

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Winter rain at night
Sweetening the taste of bread
And spicing the soup.”
― Richard Wright, Haiku: This Other World

“So each part of his day would be consumed in a war with himself, a good part of his energy would be spent in keeping control of his unruly emotions, emotions which he had not wished to have, but could not help having.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy