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Black Boy:Life

A quarter of a century was to elapse between the time when he saw his father sitting with the strange woman and the time when he was to see him again, standing alone upon the red clay of a Mississippi plantation, a sharecropper, clad in ragged overalls, holding a muddy hoe in his gnarled , veined hands-a quarter of a century during which my mind and consciousness had become so greatly and violently altered then when he tried to talk to him he realized that, though ties of blood made us kin, though he could not see a shadow of his face in his father's, though there was an echo of his voice in his father's voice, they were forever strangers, speaking a different language, living on vastly different planes of reality. That day a quarter of a century later when he visited his father on the plantation-his father was standing against the sky, smiling toothless, his hair whitened, his body bent, his eyes glazed with dim recollection, his fearsome aspect of twenty-five years ago gone forever from him-he was overwhelmed to realize the his father could never understand, him or the scalding experiences that had swept him beyond his father's life and into


"He can't howl if he's dead," Richard said. That night he won the right to the streets of Memphis. "Do anything, but get it away from here. "Then stay in the streets; don't come back here!" He ran up the steps and tried to force his way past her into the house. ""Don't you-all go to that saloon," the boy called. Before dawn we were rolling away, fleeing for our lives. He followed her about the house, demanding the right to work on Saturday. "Go now! If you come back into this house without those groceries, I'll whip you. One morning the principal summoned him to his office. "I'm going to teach you this night to stand up and fight for yourself. Realizing that they would retaliate if he let up for a second, he fought to lay them low, to knock the cold, to kill them so that they could not strike back at him.

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