Richard Wright

"We black folk, our history, and our present being are a mirror of all the manifold experiences of America. What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. If we black folk perish, America will perish."

- Richard Wright

"We Black folk, our history, and our present being are a mirror of all the manifold experiences of America. If we Black folk perish, America will perish."

- Richard Wright

"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread."

- Richard Wright

"We Black folk, our history and our present being are a mirror of all the manifold experiences of America. What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. If we Black folk perish, America will perish."

- Richard Wright

"Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance"

- Richard Wright

"Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons."

- Richard Wright

"For in the idea of chess and the development of the chess mind we have a picture of the intellectual struggle of mankind."

- Richard Wright