It was this intolerable sense of feeling and understanding so much, and yet living on a plane of social reality where the look of a world which one did not make or own struck one with a blinding objectivity and tangibility, that made me grasp the revolutionary impulse in my life and the lives of those about me and far away.


pg. xvii - Native Son (1940)

Richard Wright Quotes

It was this intolerable sense of feeling and understanding so much, and yet living on a plane of social reality where the look of a world which one...

It was this intolerable sense of feeling and understanding so much, and yet living on a plane of social reality where the look of a world which one...

It was this intolerable sense of feeling and understanding so much, and yet living on a plane of social reality where the look of a world which one...

It was this intolerable sense of feeling and understanding so much, and yet living on a plane of social reality where the look of a world which one...