Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Hopeful Children


"Any black man who can read a book are the gateway to a forbidden world. And we are joyful when we hear a black man speak like a book. The people who say how the world is to be run, who have fires in winter, who wear warm clothes, who get enough to eat, are the people who make books speak to them. SOmetimes of a night we tell our children to get out the old big family Bible and read to us, and we listen wonderingly until, tired from a long day in the fields, we fall asleep" (Wright, 65).



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