"It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow."
"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy."
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Source: Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.56, Modern Library
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