Crooks

• Why ain’t you wanted?”- “Cause I’m black…
• “A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody”
• That stablebuck's a nigger
• I tell ya a guy gets too lonely and he gets sick."
• "This is just a ngger talkin', an' a busted-back ngger. So it don't mean nothing..."
• "His body was bent over to the left by his crooked spine"
• “It was difficult to conceal his pleasure with anger"
• "sharp-witted" narrator
• How are crooks presented?

  Lonely, a microcosm of black racism and intellectual compared to others.