"In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends. . . . Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright's very powerful story."

-- Darryl Pinckney

#Girlfriend Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Stories Quotes

“No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.”
“Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it!”
“So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.”
“I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.”
“Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think?”
“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
“The stationary condition is the beginning of the end”
“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”

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