Richard Wright Quotes

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.

They that die by famine die by inches.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

The whole district seemed swept of food and a third of the population would be without food at Christmas, two thirds starving before February and by May 1848, there would be a total starvation.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number of working poor, struggling to survive, who don't have enough money to put adequate food on the table. We must find a solution to this ever-increasing problem - and quickly.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Hunger allows no choice.

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

To be hungry must be awful.

It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.