At twenty-one, Richard Wright was not the world-famous author he would eventually be. But poor and black, he decided he would read and no one could stop him. Did he storm the library and make a scene? No, not in the Jim Crow South he didn't. Instead, he forged a note that said, "Dear Madam: Will you please let this nigger boy have some books by HL Mencken?" {because no one would write that about themselves, right?}, and checked them out with a stolen library card, pretending they were for someone else.
( Ryan Holiday )
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