If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
Ralph EllisonLife is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph EllisonThere 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