Gautam’s Reviews > Native Son > Status Update

"When men of wealth urge the use and show of force, quick death, swift revenge, then it is to protect a little spot of private space against the resentful millions from whom they have filched it, the resentful millions in whose militant hearts the dream and hope of security still lives."

this book is dope.

According to the wonderful intro by Arnold Rampersad, Wright said after his previous novel that the next one "would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears."

I'm starting to feel that gravitas already.