Wright, Richard

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A twentieth-century American author known for his novels dealing with the black experience in the United States. Two of his best-known works are Black Boy and Native Son.

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How to use Wright, Richard in a sentence

As played by Omundson, King Richard is effeminate, sincere, and ten times funnier than everyone else.
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In the 1950s, you had people like Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger moving back and forth between the two worlds.
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Steiger was nominated, and Richard Burton, and a lot of people in bigger movies.
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Among African Americans, the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or Jeremiah Wright cannot do it.
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Then, two years later, America elected Richard Nixon as president.
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To Americans Mrs. Wright is interesting by reason of her patriotism, which amounted to a passion.
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Richard Chiswell, a noted English printer and an extensive publisher, died.
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Richard Brathwaite, an English poet and miscellaneous writer, died.
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By its operation Gordon Wright, the most sensible man of our acquaintance, is reduced to the level of infancy!
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Richard Cumberland died; eminent as a British poet, essayist, novelist and dramatic writer.
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