Richard Wright Library Card Quotes & Sayings

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars. — Bill Bruford

At twenty-one, Richard Wright was not the world-famous author he would eventually be. But poor and black, he decided he would read and no one could stop him. Did he storm the library and make a scene? No, not in the Jim Crow South he didn't. Instead, he forged a note that said, "Dear Madam: Will you please let this nigger boy have some books by HL Mencken?" (because no one would write that about themselves, right?), and checked them out with a stolen library card, pretending they were for someone else. With the stakes this high, you better be willing to bend the rules or do something desperate or crazy. To thumb your nose at the authorities and say: What? This is not a bridge. I don't know what you're talking about. Or, in some cases, giving the middle finger to the people trying to hold you down and blowing right through their evil, disgusting rules. Pragmatism is not so much realism as flexibility. — Ryan Holiday

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times. — Hillary Clinton

I just like to write and then perform. — Bo Burnham

Have you taken the decision of war? Then, you are sick! Have you participated the war? Then, you are sick! Do you produce guns? Then, you are sick! Refuse all of them and be healthy, be human, be normal, be a real man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You know what they say. Cold hands. Warm heart," Yuji said. "Or is it the reverse? — Gabrielle Zevin

Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living. — Mo Yan

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train. — Paul Dickson

To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life. — Lane Garrison

Everything is temporary; Emotions, thoughts, people and scenery. Do not become attached, just flow with it. — Anonymous