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Goddammit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got… — Richard Wright

Novel

Goddammit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like living in jail.

Richard Wright
Native Son · 1940
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Black experienceRace relations
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Novel
Time
1940
Person
Richard Wright
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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 1.

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