This piece is what made me aspire to write my thesis on Black ex-patriates, particularly Baldwin and Wright in France.

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Richard Wright, “I Choose Exile”

I am a native born American Negro. The first 38 years of my life were spent exclusively on the soil of my native land. But, at the moment of this writing, I live in voluntary exile in France and I like it. There is nothing in the life of America…

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