Talk:Richard Wright

- Nate Dowdy -

 * It has been only through books... that I had managed to keep myself alive.


 * People say good things come to those who wait, well I've waited 16 years and now it seems too late.


 * Living in the past with regret is like killing yourself on the inside and throwing them to darkness.


 * The artist must bow to the monster of his creation


 * I have no religion in the formal sense of the word .... I have no race except that which is forced upon me. I have no country except that to which I'm obliged to belong. I have no traditions. I'm free. I have only the future.


 * As a rule, memories fade with the passage of time, instead of remembering with specificity but providing no dates or times as backup. It was the first time, to our knowledge, these things have ever been said.


 * Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.


 * Panting, begging I clutched childlike, clutched to the hot sides of death. Now I am dry bones and my face a stony skull staring in yellow surprise at the sun. . ..


 * 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.


 * “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”