nicolle jennelle’s Reviews > Native Son > Status Update

…white people were not really people; they were a sort of great natural force, like a stormy sky looming overhead… As long as he and his black folks did not go beyond certain limits, there was no need to fear that white force. But whether they feared it or not, each and every day of their lives they lived with it… As long as they lived here in this prescribed corner of the city, they paid mute tribute to it.