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Book: Cliffs Notes on Wright's Black Boy
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  1. Richard Wright _ Cliffs Notes on Wright's Black

    It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...
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  2. Richard Wright _ Cliffs Notes on Wright's Black

    Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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