Black Boy

"Wright was born a few miles from Natchez, Miss., my hometown, and he died the year I was born. His work has brought me many chills of recognition."

"Richard Wright (“Black Boy”) got me to school on the bus"

"Richard Wright's Black Boy (the complete, not the edited version). For Wright's astute and lucid outrage, his refusal to evade, his determination to make his readers hear, see, feel, think and want to act."

"anyone who doubts this has only to glance through Richard Wright's memoir, "Black Boy""

"When I first read Richard Wright's novel "Black Boy" I felt poetry in his description of the land"

"About his growing up in the South."