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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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness
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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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First thing is, are you dealing with a liar or not?
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We could speculate all day as to what they talked about.
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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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There's one word for it -- carnage. It's horrible.
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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.
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You'll be amazed how far your money will go,
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I would do anything to have a recording of that two-and-a-half hour meeting.
If this isn't a waiver of attorney-client privilege, I don't know what is.
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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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She wanted to tell her side of the story, but they (prosecutors) were hamstringing me.
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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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It's not without its hiccups. You don't go in expecting things to always work smoothly, but Romanians are geniuses at what we might consider to be jury-rigged solutions. The power plant might be held together by paper clips and bubble gum, but it works.