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None of them say that.
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It's always Black Boy, American Hunger.
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These are not person-specific.
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These implicitly make a claim to the generality--
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at the national scale,
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or in the racial sense--the representativeness of this life.
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And, indeed, what more powerful testimony to the power
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of narration is there, the power of a story,
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to say that you heard a story
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and it became as if part of
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your experience, that you heard Ralph Ellison tell
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that story, and somehow you began to live it yourself?