Bigger Thomas

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Goddammit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like living in jail.

Richard Wright

Native Son

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Topic

Black experience Race relations

Speaker

Bigger Thomas

Author

Richard Wright

Source

Native Son

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 1.