(Surprise not a Wilde.)


I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
~ Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

3 comments

  1. Beth Trissel // May 19, 2008 at 11:15 AM  

    In a word, Powerful!

  2. Mary Marvella // May 19, 2008 at 1:17 PM  

    It reminds me of the way we write and submit. Once we're published it will seem even more so.

  3. Nightingale // May 19, 2008 at 4:27 PM  

    It did pack a lot of emotional power and resonated with me.