Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. – Richard Wright
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. – Richard Wright

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. – Richard Wright
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. – Richard Wright
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. – Richard Wright
Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Progress of Culture”