I would hurl words into the darkness and wait for an echo. If an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Richard Wright, (Sep 4 1908-1960), US novelist, short-story writer; He was among the first black American writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel Native Son, 1940.