But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
Richard WrightIf a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
Richard WrightIt was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
Richard WrightHunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
Richard Wright