Richard Wright
Richard Wright
Influential African-American author of Black Boy, Native Son, and Uncle Tom's Children. His work helped improve race relations in the 20th century.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 September 1908
CityRoxie, MS
CountryUnited States of America
mary school ski until
They didn't even know about the ski school until Mary told them. They didn't even know about that.
behind complaint finally four glad issue matter nearly satisfied
This complaint has been pending for nearly four years. We have satisfied every provision of the settlement. This matter is now behind us, and we are glad to have the issue finally resolved.
dealing liar
First thing is, are you dealing with a liar or not?
word
There's one word for it -- carnage. It's horrible.
hurricane looked tsunami
It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds.
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All the formalities, including a work permit and a Tongan passport, have been completed and he is all set to join us in the near future.
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All he knows is he gives the money to Lance (Malone). He presumes Lance is passing it on, rather than stealing it.
drama feelings answers
It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
knowing awful another-chance
I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
life alive world
I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...
attitude suffering-of-others peaceful
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
book writing dark
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
glasses law land
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
dream thinking justice
What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.