Aug 9, 2008
[Richard Wright] persuaded a sympathetic white man to lend him his library card, and he forged a note for himself to present to the librarian: “Dear Madam: Will you please let this nigger boy have some books by H. L. Mencken?”—Louis Menand, “Richard Wright: The Hammer and the Nail”, American Studies, 88, citing Wright, Black Boy, Later Works, 235.
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