Richard Wright

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. ↗

— Richard Wright

#men

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie. ↗

— Richard Wright

#lie #truth #death

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. ↗

— Richard Wright

#relationships #experience

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed ↗

— Richard Wright

#life

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive. ↗

— Richard Wright

#inspirational #inspirational

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us. ↗

— Richard Wright

#american #native-son #race #religion #us

... a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die. ↗

— Richard Wright

#life #death

How could one find out about life when one was about to die? ↗

— Richard Wright

#life

....I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination. ↗

— Richard Wright

#racism #richard-wright #men

You can't make me do nothing but die! ↗

— Richard Wright

#death #freedom #death