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

Quote by Ralph Ellison

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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also...

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also...

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...

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

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

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain....

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain....

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone,...

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone,...

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...

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...

Education is all a matter of building bridges

Education is all a matter of building bridges

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...

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...

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.

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...

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

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...

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...

On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view...

On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view...

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the...

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the...

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.