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and my own inability to make the adjustment to it, I became so anti-social that I became a constant truant. Whenever I'd walk out of the house and it would be a nice, beautiful day, I'd get halfway to school and think "What's the use in going to school?" I'd much prefer spending my time in a library or going to the art studio and walk around, which I did.
...No, the school gave me no problem. One other thing which is probably the thing that really set it off, long before the Hi-Y and school drama did was that, as I said, I had been interested in ___, like one of my second grade passions, as you can realize, and by the time I got into high school, I had read all the works of Jack London. I had read Mark Twain, all of his works. I almost started a library, but I never did. I started, and I was going to go through the alphabet. I started with the "A's", and it didn't matter what the subject was, whether it was fishing or art, it didn't matter what it was, I was just going to read right through. So I started to read. You know, I didn't get through halfway. But this is the course I took. Somehow it all became exploring these books and different kinds of books and subjects, and I came across quite accidentally in the library, one of the most definitive and most important books that had ever been done on the culture of the Negro which was a book called The New Negro by Doctor Alleen Lock,

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