Richard Wright Quote

My schoolmates could not understand why anyone would want to write a story; and, above all, they could not understand why I had called it The Voodoo of Hell's Half-Acre. The mood out of which a story was written was the most alien thing conceivable to them.

Black Boy (1945)

My schoolmates could not understand why anyone would want to write a story; and, above all, they could not understand why I had called it The Voodoo...

My schoolmates could not understand why anyone would want to write a story; and, above all, they could not understand why I had called it The Voodoo...

My schoolmates could not understand why anyone would want to write a story; and, above all, they could not understand why I had called it The Voodoo...

My schoolmates could not understand why anyone would want to write a story; and, above all, they could not understand why I had called it The Voodoo...