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
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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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We knew about that. We want to get him over to join up with the squad and he can travel back for the court case.
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Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.
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We could speculate all day as to what they talked about.
If this isn't a waiver of attorney-client privilege, I don't know what is.
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I would do anything to have a recording of that two-and-a-half hour meeting.
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She wanted to tell her side of the story, but they (prosecutors) were hamstringing me.
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Nobody has any confidence. Nobody wants to buy anything and if they do buy anything they're wrong within about 10 minutes. It's fairly gloomy.
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I think the difference between our defense from last year and this year is that last year we had big, strong linemen, and this year our linemen are smaller, but we make up for it with our speed.
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He has signed a contract with us and I heard on Monday that his work permit has been received. We were expecting him to join us at any time.
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We really wanted to play hard because of Clay after he got injured. And everybody really took it personal because he's the leader of our defense.