"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
— Ralph Ellison

January 1, 1970

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"The Essential Ellison", interview by Ishmael Reed in Y'Bird 1, no. 1 (1978): 130-59.