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Quotes from Black Boy (American Hunger) — Richard Wright

1908–1960 United States

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As a protective mechanism, I developed a terse, cynical mode of speech that rebuffed those who sought to get too close to me. Conversation was my way of avoiding expression; my words were reserved for those times when I sat down alone to write. My face was always a deadpan or a mask of general friendliness; no word or event could jar me into a gesture of enthusiasm or despair.

Black Boy (American Hunger) (1991)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Wright (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.