The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
Source: 12 Million Black Voices, 1941.
-- 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.