Native Son Quotes

“In a movie he could dream without effort; all he had to do was lean back in a seat and keep his eyes open.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“Pale yellow sunshine fell through high windows and slashed the air.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“Not only had he lived where they told him to live, not only had he done what they told him to do, not only had he done these things until he had killed to be quit of them ; but even after obeying, after killing, they still ruled him. He was their property, heart and soul, body and blood ; what they did claimed every atom of him, sleeping and waking...”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“But he is product of a dislocated society; he is a dispossessed and disinherited man; he is all of this, and he lives amide the greatest plenty on earth and he is looking and feeling for a way out.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son