"It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books..."

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Source : Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback

Richard Wright

#Book Quotes #Support Quotes #Alive Quotes

“His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an ad noting that in Congress he opposed the Reagan budget cuts. He says that because Bill Bradley was one of 36 Democratic Senators who voted for the cuts. Gore doesnâ€™t point out that Bradley also voted against the popular Reagan tax cuts and that it was the tax cuts that piled up those enormous deficits, a snowballing national debt.”
“Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.”
“You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.”
“It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.”
“Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.”
“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”
“Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.”
“A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.”

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