“....I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.” RacismBlack BoyRichard Wright Author:Richard Wright
“It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.” HumansMadeHelpingFeelingsFacesAnswersWonderAliveDramaAweSense Of WonderBlack Boy Book:Black boy: a record of childhood and youth Source: Black boy: a record of childhood and youth
“Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness” WorldWayLooksDifferentSelfFactsAmericaYoungEvilEasyProcessBlackTermWhiteSeeingHolyLowsConscienceLonelyRighteousnessFrightenedAggressiveHugGood And BadCloaksEasy WaySeeing The WorldBlack Boy Book:American Hunger Source: American Hunger
