Richard Wright: Likeness (page 2)

Richard Wright was African-American writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Richard Wright: 260 quotes 6 likes

“I sat on the edge of the bed and stared at her in amazement. It was on reputedly disreputable Beale Street in Memphis that I had met the warmest, friendliest person I had ever known, that I discovered that all human beings were not mean and driving, were not bigots like the members of my family.”

Richard Wright book Black Boy

Black Boy (1945)

Family , Personality

“He came like a sledgehammer, like a giant out of the mountain with a sledgehammer, writing with a sledgehammer…”

Richard Wright

Historian John Henrik Clarke

Mountain

“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. But I could not conquer my sense of guilt, my feeling that the white men around me knew that I was changing, that I had begun to regard them differently.”

Richard Wright book Black Boy

Black Boy (1945)

Reading , Sense , Change , Feeling