Creative Quotations from . . .
Richard Wright
(1908-1960) born on Sep 04
US "novelist, short-story writer". "He was among the first black American writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel "Native Son," 1940."
 
   
F
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing."

R
"Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed."
A
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
N
"I would hurl words into the darkness and wait for an echo. If an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight."
K
Men can starve from lack of self-realization as much as they can from lack of bread.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""12 Million Black Voices," 1941."
R: ""Blueprint for Negro Literature," 1971."
A: ""12 Million Black Voices," 1941."
N: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K: ""12 Million Black Voices," 1941."



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