Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
—Richard Wright
Topics: Reality
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as… from a lack of bread.
—Richard Wright
Topics: Self-Discovery, Self-Knowledge, Appropriateness, Aptness
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
—Richard Wright
Topics: Writing
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