“Nothing…. Alone a man is nothing….. I wish I had some way to give the meaning of my life to others…. To make a bridge from man to man…. We must find some way of being good to ourselves…. Man is all we've got.”

—  Richard Wright , book The Outsider

The Outsider (1953)

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African-American writer 1908–1960

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