Arielle

“You can't make me do nothing but die!”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man...”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about. I swore to myself that if I ever wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears.”
― Richard Wright, Bigger Thomas