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

January 1, 1970

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Sources

"The Art of Fiction: An Interview" (The Paris Review, Spring 1955), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 217.