"It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow."
"I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist."
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Source: Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham, Amritjit Singh (1995). “Conversations with Ralph Ellison”, p.235, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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