Richard Wright Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Richard Wright:

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
~Richard Wright


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-wright-quotes/#1181b802

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.
~Richard Wright


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-wright-quotes/#796d067d

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
~Richard Wright


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-wright-quotes/#17e5eeec

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-wright-quotes/#6e63fc34

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
~Richard Wright


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-wright-quotes/#0dd1bd8f

It's becoming very much like 1979 again.
~Richard Wright


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-wright-quotes/#32e00d88

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
~Richard Wright


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-wright-quotes/#6d49739d

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
~Richard Wright


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-wright-quotes/#4fdb5d7d

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