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Quotes from Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity — Ralph Ellison

1913–1994 United States

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Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.[…] For if the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison and destroy.

Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity (1953)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ralph Ellison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.