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 every 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.


p. xxvii - Native Son (1940)

Richard Wright Quotes

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 every wrote ...

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 every wrote ...

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 every wrote ...

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 every wrote ...