Quotes About Richard Wright

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".

Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner

Over spring mountains A star ends the paragraph Of a thunderstorm.

Even the cat smiles When the hen swallows water With back-tilted head.

unconscious but powerful identification of violence against other human beings as the most appropriate response to the disastrous conditions of their lives.

If this state of affairs had lasted for two or three years, we could say that it was unjust; but it lasted for more than two hundred years. Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life.

Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.

As much as I love to slay a red carpet hitting the ground running with 'Beale Street' and 'Native Son,' representing two such important voices in James Baldwin and Richard Wright let people know that I'm an artist and I really have something to say with this gift.