Black Power

"Wright writes with emotional persuasiveness and power, relentlessly probing men, motives, myths, and history for a terrifying glimpse of a continent in turmoil." -- Newsday (on Black Power)

"Before it is too late, we would do well to read carefully and critically what Richard Wright has written." -- San Francisco Chronicle (on Black Power)

"The reader of 'Black Power' will be grateful, no doubt, for many fascinating, and even illuminating glimpses of primitive tribal life in a country marked out for precocious political development." -- New York Times (on Black Power)

"Intensely personal. . . . A wholly different portrait of Africa. . . . It must be accepted as an important if sometimes difficult contribution." -- Kirkus Reviews (on Black Power)

"As reporting [Black Power] is a first-class job and gives the best picture I've seen of an extraordinary situation." -- The Nation (on Black Power)

"A book that needs to be pondered." -- Kirkus Reviews (on The Color Curtain)

"A vivid and illuminating job of reportage." -- New York Times (on The Color Curtain)

"A brilliantly written, highly emotional record by a sensitive and gifted reporter. It conveys eloquently the excitement of Bandung, the exuberance of peoples newly conscious that they were masters in their own house." -- Christian Science Monitor (on The Color Curtain)

"Wright's most confessional account of the inner drama of decolonization." -- London Review of Books (on White Man, Listen!)

"Deserves to be read with utmost seriousness, for the attitude it expresses has an intrinsic importance in our times." -- New York Times (on White Man, Listen!)

"Wright has the insight of a novelist and poet, so he is not satisfied with the usual sort of comment on race relations. He wants to show the often uncomprehending white man what he has done to hundreds of millions of another color, and what he can do today to redeem the situation." -- Christian Science Monitor (on White Man, Listen!)

"Wright's trilogy of books about decolonisation was the great achievement of his last decade." -- London Review of Books