"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."
About Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.
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