-
that the person who gave him life can revoke it.
-
His mother, who gave him life,
-
can take that life away from him.
-
It's a profound sense of jeopardy--
-
physical, mortal jeopardy--
-
and I want to point to those "huge, wobbly, white bags,
-
like the full udders of cows."
-
One of the wonderful things
-
you can see in the Beinecke's
-
Richard Wright archives
-
is the draft copies of Black Boy.
-
Wright revised this image in those drafts.