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Richard Nathaniel Wright — Part 2
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- WHI I§TEN! Bs outsider, living in (wow orlds, yl
Ri t, Double: and able to believe in neither.
1 ay, >. No solutions or plans of
a thin honk Ww ne need ae read action are presented. Wright
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bad do so, because it 18 wrilien contends that we all, decp
7 by a Negro, Those who do im our hearts, know exactly
c read it ray not like il. es- what to do, though most of
~ of pectatly if they are inctined us would rather die than do
~- to feel that everything said it.’ Who can say that he is
, zbout social prohlems must wrong?
- be constructive. For this 1s ‘to those familiar with
‘oo pitter and viluperative Wright's work, this book will
ok, “explosive and bla- have a familiar, personal Pore a0 ee oe
tantly unacademic”™ ring. Perhaps more than the itu fY< “ VT
Riehard Wrichi comments plight of the world’s colored *
ff ardently on white-colored re- peoples, it reflects his own C 7-4
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4 principally with the psvcho sitive American Negro, Read: i: ~
adc logical impact of white men's ing it, ane is mindful of his ’ - 7 tite
. \ intrusions on colored pee clasing words in an earlier a hi 7 1459
ples. Whether they came as tspay: wee AR
missionaries, businessmen or “1 would hurl words into
conquerors, Wright) argues, this darkness and wait for an er ee
they have helped to umler. echo, and if an echo sounded,
mine the cultures of Africa no matter how faintly, 1
and Asia. would send other words to
Thus, the colored man has tell, to march, to fight, to - 4
been alitnated from his creato a sense of the hunger ; :
own, while he is also pre for jife that grows in us all Wash. Post and
vented from becoming a part to keep alive in our hearts a :
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