Mattie

“there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed”
― richard wright

“Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.”
― Richard Wright, Cliffs Notes on Wright's Black Boy

“Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!”
― Richard Wright