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“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the bells and the screams that filled the air.”

Quote by Richard Wright

Book:Black Boy
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Black Boy

This classic novel delves into the life of a young African American man as he navigates the complexities of race, identity, and social justice in the early 20th century United States. more

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Richard Wright
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 - November 28, 1960) was an influential American author whose works profoundly exposed racial discrimination and social injustice, leaving a lasting impact on American literature. more

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Book:Where the Crawdads Sing
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