"The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically."
— Ralph Ellison

January 1, 1970

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Sources

"The Little Man at Chehaw Station" (1978), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 503.