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Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 - November 28, 1960) was an influential American author whose works profoundly exposed racial discrimination and social injustice, leaving a lasting impact on American literature.

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“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.”

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Book:Native Son

Source: Native Son

“Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.”

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Book:Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider

Source: Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider

“It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.”

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Author:Richard Wright

“It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.”

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Book:Black Boy

Source: Black Boy

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.”

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Book:Black Boy

Source: Black Boy

About the Author

Born: September 4, 1908
Died: November 28, 1960
Known for: Author
Quotes: 67

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