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"...that my father was a black peasant who had gone to the city seeking life, but who had failed in the city; a black peasant whose life had been hopelessly snarled in the city, and who had at last fled the city—that same city which had lifted me in its burning arms and borne me toward alien and undreamed-of shores of knowing."

Wright, Richard. Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] (pp. 34-35).