no apparent reason. These beatings go on for a
             long time, but he fights back several times against his grandmother, aunts, and uncles. Wright had
             a great deal of independence and self-reliance, probably gained by the abandonments suffered as a
             young man. Another source of turmoil in Wrights life while living in his grandmothers house was
             a matter of religion. His grand mother went to church all the time and was constantly quoting the
             bible, but Wright did not believe in God or the church. His grandmother hated him for this
             Race relations did not affect Wright through out his early childhood. He did not even realize there
             was a difference in color until his early teens. A black in the early 1900's was supposed to act a
             certain way in front of whites: like they were sub-human. It took Wright a long time to learn that.
             He would act like anyone else not recognizing whites as superior just equals. He almost got killed
             because of it. One day, when Wright was a teenager, a group of white men offered Wright a ride
             he said"sure". Half to town they threw him out of the car and told him the next time a white man
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