Quote of the Day (Richard Wright, on ‘Lack of Self-Realization’)

“Remember that men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread! And they can murder for it, too! Did we not build a nation, did we not wage war and conquer in the name of a dream to realize our personalities and to make those realized personalities secure!”—African-American novelist Richard Wright (1908-1960), Native Son (1940)