Source: Uncle Tom's Children
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Famous Richard Wright Quotes
Source: Black Boy
Source: Black boy: a record of childhood and youth
Source: Black Boy
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”
Source: Richard Wright Reader
Source: American Hunger
Source: Richard Wright Reader
“Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!”
Source: Richard Wright Reader
“I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it”
Source: Black Boy
Source: Native Son
Source: Works
Source: Black Boy
Source: Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider
“Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.”
Source: Native Son
“I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em.”
Source: Native Son
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.”
Source: Black Boy