A review by zhollows
Black Boy by Richard Wright

4.0

“Humbly now, with no vaulting dream of achieving a vast unity, I wanted to try to build a bridge of words between me and that world outside. That world that was so distant and illusive that is seemed unreal. I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo. And if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words; to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all. To keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human.”