Richard Wright Quotes

"The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination."
- Richard Wright
(Related: Imagination, Artist)

"Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons."
- Richard Wright
(Related: Men)

"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread."
- Richard Wright
(Related: Men, Self)

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

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

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

"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
(Related: Life, Darkness, Echo, Fight, Hunger, March, Sense, Words)