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Quote by Ralph Ellison
The understanding of art depends finally upon ones willingness to

The understanding of art depends finally upon ones willingness to extend ones humanity and ones knowledge of human life. – Ralph Ellison

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I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. – Ralph Ellison

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Black History
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Ralph Ellison
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. – Ralph Ellison

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Fairy Tales
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Ralph Ellison
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The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge. – Esperanza Spalding

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The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then. – Stokely Carmichael

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Knowledge

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise. – Kenneth Scott Latourette

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The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian. – Daniel D. Palmer

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