“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can fro...” — Richard Wright Quote

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”

“Maybe man is nothing in particular,' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all. And maybe man deep down suspects this, really knows this, kind of dreams that it is true; but at the same time he does not want really to know it? May not human life on this earth be a kind of frozen fear of man at what he could possibly be? And every move he makes might not these moves be just to hide this awful fact? To twist it into something which he feels would make him rest and breathe a little easier? What man is is perhaps too much to be borne by man...”

“At times I think and at times I am.”

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”

“You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.”