America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

Quote by Ralph Ellison

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All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried...

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried...

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's...

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's...

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past...

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past...

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed...

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed...

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and...

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and...

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come...

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come...

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church...

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church...

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones...

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones...

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Education is all a matter of building bridges

Education is all a matter of building bridges

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play...

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play...

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of...

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of...

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.