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Richard Wright
American writer

Richard Wright, (born September 4, 1908, near Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.—died November 28, 1960, Paris, France), novelist and short-story writer who was among the first African American writers to protest white treatment of Blacks, notably in his novel Native Son (1940) and his autobiography, Black Boy (1945). He inaugurated the tradition of protest explored by other Black writers after World War II.

Wright’s grandparents had been slaves. His father left home when he was five, and the boy, who grew up in poverty, was often shifted from one relative to another. He worked at a number of jobs before joining the northward migration, first to Memphis, Tennessee, and then to Chicago. There, after working in unskilled jobs, he got an opportunity to write through the Federal Writers’ Project. In 1932 he became a member of the Communist Party, and in 1937 he went to New York City, where he became Harlem editor of the Communist Daily Worker.

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Friday, April 29th 2022 at 11:24AM
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Yes a GIANT of AMerican Thought...thanks

Richard Nathaniel Wright AMERICAN Native Son...author of:

“The Negro is America's metaphor”

“Men starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”

Friday, April 29th 2022 at 6:05PM
robert powell

Wright first came to the general public’s attention with a volume of novellas, Uncle Tom’s Children (1938), based on the question: How may a Black man live in a country that denies his humanity?

Friday, April 29th 2022 at 11:37PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

How may a Black man live in a country that denies his humanity?

Friday, April 29th 2022 at 11:37PM
Deacon Ron Gray

Wright moved his Family to Paris with his wife-two girls; and never returned to the U.S. again!

..WHAT a GREAT African American/Europeon

Saturday, April 30th 2022 at 1:21PM
robert powell

In each story but one the hero’s quest ends in death. His fictional scene shifted to Chicago in Native Son. Its protagonist, a poor Black youth named Bigger Thomas, accidentally kills a white girl, and in the course of his ensuing flight his hitherto meaningless awareness of antagonism from a white world becomes intelligible. The book was a best seller and was staged successfully as a play on Broadway (1941) by Orson Welles. Wright himself played Bigger Thomas in a motion-picture version made in Argentina in 1951.

Saturday, April 30th 2022 at 3:21PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

FROM the Native Son; living in Paris, France

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"I feel that for white America to understand the significance of the problem of the Negro will

take a bigger and tougher America than any we have yet known.

I feel that America's past is too shallow, her national character too superficially optimistic,

her morality too suffused with color hate for her to accomplish so vast and complex a task.

Culturally the Negro represents a paradox:

..he is a part of the nation, he is excluded by the ride and direction of American culture.

Frankly, it is felt to be right to exclude him, and it if felt to be wrong to admit him freely.

..if, the nation ever seeks to purge itself of its color hate,

it will find itself at war with itself, convulsed by a spasm of emotional and moral confusion.

If the nation ever finds itself examining its real relation to the Negro,

it will find itself doing infinitely more than that;

for the anti-Negro attitude of whites represents but a tiny part

- though a symbolically significant one - of the moral attitude of the nation.

Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid."

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AGAIN, deaCON...

..orsonBroadwayChicago is NOT the Important part of the History of the AfricanAmerican

..Richard Nathaniel Wright represents the Important part of the History of the AfricanAmerican

Saturday, April 30th 2022 at 6:40PM
robert powell

In 1944 Wright left the Communist Party because of political and personal differences. His Black Boy is a moving account of his childhood and young manhood in the South. The book chronicles the extreme poverty of his childhood, his experience of white prejudice and violence against Blacks, and his growing awareness of his interest in literature.

Saturday, April 30th 2022 at 10:10PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

..because of political and personal differences; from Harlem ..

Wright moved his Family to Paris with his wife-two girls; and never returned to the U.S. again!

..WHAT a GREAT African American/European

Sunday, May 1st 2022 at 11:05AM
robert powell