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布克·T·华盛顿：力争上游·摘录 14
布克·T·华盛顿《力争上游》· Up from Slavery · 领导
The literature of the Negro in America is colossal, from political oratory through abolitionism to “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and “Cotton is King”—a vast mass of books which many men have read to the waste of good years (and I among them); but the only books that I have read a second time or ever care again to read in the whole list (most of them by tiresome and unbalanced “reformers”) are “Uncle Remus” and “Up from Slavery”; for these are the great literature of the subject. One has all the best of the past, the other foreshadows a better future; and the men who wrote them are the only men who have written of the subject with that perfect frankness and perfect knowledge and perfect poise whose other name is genius.
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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2376
定位：Excerpt 14 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
美国关于黑人的文献浩如烟海，从政治演说、废奴主义到《汤姆叔叔的小屋》和《棉花是王》，大量书籍许多人读得浪费了好几年（我也是其中之一）。但整个书单里我读过第二遍、并且还想再读的，只有《雷默斯大叔》和《超越奴役》，因为它们才是这个题材的伟大文学。一本集过去之大成，一本预示更好的未来；两位作者也是仅有的以完美坦率、完美知识和完美平衡——也就是天才——来写这个题材的人。
上下文
华盛顿在自传结尾借他人之口评价自己的作品，将其与《雷默斯大叔》并列为黑人题材的文学经典。
今日一问
你读过的书里，有哪些是值得读第二遍的？它们为什么值得？
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