Richard Wright Quote

During the following days I learned through discreet questioning that I had seemed a fantastic element to the black Communists. I was shocked to hear that I, who had been only to grammar school, had been classified as an intellectual. What was an intellectual? I had never heard the word used in the sense in which it was applied to me.


Black Boy (1945)


During the following days I learned through discreet questioning that I had seemed a fantastic element to the black Communists. I was shocked to hear ...

During the following days I learned through discreet questioning that I had seemed a fantastic element to the black Communists. I was shocked to hear ...

During the following days I learned through discreet questioning that I had seemed a fantastic element to the black Communists. I was shocked to hear ...

During the following days I learned through discreet questioning that I had seemed a fantastic element to the black Communists. I was shocked to hear ...