Richard Wright Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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

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.

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

It's becoming very much like 1979 again.

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

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

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