Top Highlights

• listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
• Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), his initial novel, is a partly autobiographical description of his youth.
• anxieties among New York intellectuals.
• compelling descriptions of American racism.
• People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.