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A.D. Wright

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A.D. Wright discovered his love for writing and a passion for urban culture in an Honors African American History class at Hampton University.

In September of 2010, he was featured in the 40th anniversary issue of Essence Magazine, as a contributor to the Love is in the Air series.

A.D. Wright wrote this novel because it’s a story that he would enjoy reading. It encompasses all that he's read and watched in his lifetime. It speaks to a group of people that is rarely reached and hard to define by design; the kind of people who like hip hop, blue grass and classical; people who have reality TV in the background while they study for law school; people who value cubism as much as street art. His kind of people.

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The Language of Our Captors

People think of colonialism as a kind of gentle help extended to primitive culture for the their own good. Of course, the colonizer has the right to depict its own mission in this manner to its own people. But when your own native language has been taken away from you, a lot of things go away from you along with that language. When a new language has been instilled in you, a great deal of thing

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Published on May 09, 2017 05:58
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I Live: A Novel Without Heroes

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