Status Updates From Black Boy

“You’d like them,” Sol said.
“I don’t want to be organized,” I said.
“They can help you to write,” he said.
“Nobody can tell me how or what to write,” I said.

Wright, Richard. Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] (p. 315). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

'I was introduced to the Irish chap’s friends and we formed a “gang” of Irish, Jewish, and Negro wits who poked fun at government, the masses, statesmen, and political parties.'

Wright, Richard. Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] (p. 285). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

"My reading had created a vast sense of distance between me and the world in which I lived and tried to make a living, and that sense of distance was increasing each day."

Wright, Richard. Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] (p. 253). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“Look here,” I said. “Don’t believe what Mr. Olin says.” “I see now,” Harrison said. “He’s playing a dirty trick on us.”

Wright, Richard. Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] (p. 237). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

"For weeks after that I could not believe in my feelings. My personality was numb, reduced to a lumpish, loose, dissolved state. I was a non-man, something that knew vaguely that it was human but felt that it was not."

Wright, Richard. Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] (p. 194). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

Devastating

"This business of saving souls had no ethics; every human relationship was shamelessly exploited."

Wright, Richard. Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] (p. 154). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

"Wherever I found religion in my life I found strife, the attempt of one individual or group to rule another in the name of God. The naked will to power seemed always to walk in the wake of a hymn."

Wright, Richard. Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] (p. 136). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“If laying down my life could stop the suffering in the world, I’d do it. But I don’t believe anything can stop it,” I told him.

Wright, Richard. Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] (p. 116). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.