
„I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about. I swore to myself that if I every wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears.“
— Richard Wright African-American writer 1908 - 1960
Origine: Native Son (1940), p. xxvii