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Richard Wright
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....I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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