Author: Richard Wright

Cites

• Oscar Wilde (1)
  • IN: Savage Holiday (1954) Fiction, Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: For he who sins a second time, wakes a deal soul to pain and draws it from it's spotted shroud, and makes it bleed again and makes it bleed great gouts of blood, and makes it bleed in vain!
    FROM: The Ballad of Reading Gaol, (1898), Poem, Ireland
• Bible (4)
  • IN: Savage Holiday (1954) Fiction, Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: And Behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of his house....
    FROM: Job 1:19, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Black Boy ( American Hunger) (1945) Non-Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They meet with darkness in the daytime And they grope at noonday as in the night...
    FROM: Job, (-165), ***Bible, NULL
  • IN: Native Son (1940) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Even today is my complaint rebellious, My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
    FROM: Job, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The Outsider (1953) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.
    FROM: Job, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Dylan Thomas (1)
  • IN: The Long Dream (1958) Fiction, Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sleep navigates the tides of time: The dry sargasso of the tomb Gives up it's dead to such a working sea; And sleep rolls mute above the beds Where fishes' food is fed the shades Who periscope through flowers to the sky
    FROM: When Once the Twilight Locks No Longer, (1934), Poem, UK
• O Mannoni (1)
  • IN: The Long Dream (1958) Fiction, Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: Naturally, the place they make for themselves... is very often of an inferior moral order and cannot fully compensate for their feelings of inferiority. They may run after their "conquests", but they wil never wholly attain it. The men are less fortunate... it is they who display the celebrated racial inferiority complex in it's purest form, with it's fantastic compensations in the form of vanity.
    FROM: Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization, (1950), Book, France
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: The Long Dream (1958) Fiction, Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: The dream's here still: even when I wake it is Without me, as within me: not imagined
    FROM: Cymbeline, (1623), Play, UK
• Van Wyck Brooks (1)
  • IN: Lawd Today! (1963) Fiction, Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... a vast Sargasso sea --a prodigious welter of unconscious life, swept by groundswells of half conscious emotion...
    FROM: America's Coming of Age, (1915), Book, US
• Waldo Frank (1)
  • IN: Lawd Today! (1963) Fiction, Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... Now, when you study these long, rigid rows of desiccated men and women, you feel that you are in the presence of some form of life that has hardened but not grown, and over which the world has passed....
    FROM: Our America, (1919), Book, US
• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: Lawd Today! (1963) Fiction, Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... But at my back in a cold blast I hear The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear
    FROM: The Wasteland, (1922), Poem, UK
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: The Outsider (1953) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cruelty has a Human Heart, And Jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And Secrecy the Human Dress.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Uncle Tom's Children (1936) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The post Civil War household word among Negroes -- "He's an Uncle Tom!" -- which denoted reluctant toleration for the cringnig type who knew his place before white folk, has been supplante by a new word from another generation which says: -- "Uncle Tom is dead!"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL

Cited by

• Kristin Moriah (1)
  • IN: Black Writers and the Left (2013) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: I went home full of reflection, probing the sincerity of the strange white people, I had met, wondering how they really regarded Negroes. I lay on my bed and read the magazines and was amazed to find that there did exist in this world an organised search for the truth of the lived of the oppressed and the isolated. When I had begged bread from the officials, I had wondered dimly if the outcasts could become united in action, thought, and feeling. Now I knew. It was being done in one sixth of the earth already. The revolutionary words leaped from the printed page and struck me with trememdous force.
    FROM: I Tried to be a Communist, (1944), Essay, US
• Sarah Zettel (1)
  • IN: Bad Luck Girl (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And there in that great iron city, that impersonal, mechanical city, amid the steam, the smoke, the snowy winds, the blistering suns; there in that self-conscious city, that city so deadly dramatic and stimulating, we caught whispers of the meaning that life could have.
    FROM: Black Metropolis, (1993), Novel, US
• Jacqueline Woodson (1)
  • IN: Another Brooklyn (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Keep straight down this block, Then turn right where you will find A peach tree blooming.
    FROM: "Haiku", (None), Poem, US