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Showing posts with label Richard Wright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Wright. Show all posts
Sunday, November 9, 2025

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

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“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...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Flashback, May 1925: Future Novelist Richard Wright in Clash Over Graduation

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Being named valedictorian should have been cause for celebration for 17-year-old Richard Wright in May 1925. Instead, the insistence of his...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008

This Day in Literary History (Edward Aswell, Book Editor and Book Character, Dies)

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November 5, 1958—Edward Aswell, who performed major editorial surgery on works by Thomas Wolfe and Richard Wright , died at age 58. Readers...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

Quote of the Day (Richard Wright, on the Communist Party)

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"It was not courage that made me oppose the (Communist) party. I simply did not know any better. It was inconceivable to me, though b...
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