Diversity Doesn't Mean Black And White Only.

We Can See That The Complexity We Witness Inside The African-american Community Today Has Always Been There. Black People Were Just As Noble And Just As Ignoble As Anybody Else.

Arnold Rampersad's Stunningly Revealing Biography Has, At Long Last, Unveiled-in Magisterial Prose-the Very Complex And Vulnerable Man Behind Ralph Ellison's Own Masks And Myths. One Of The Nation's Most Brilliant Writers Emerges As All The More Fascinating Precisely Because He Was So Very Human. Painstakingly Researched And Compellingly Written, Ralph Ellison Is A Masterwork Of The Genre Of Literary Biography.

If You Don't Tell Your Stories, Other People Will Tell Their Story About You. It's Important That We Nurture And Protect These Memories. Things Change. Existence Means Change.

America Is The Greatest Nation Ever Founded. The Ideals Are The Greatest Ever Espoused In Human History, And We Just Need The Country To Live Up To Them. But What I Worry About Are The 1 Million Black Men In The Prison System.

The Western Stereotype Of Africa And Its Black Citizens As Devoid Of Reason And, Therefore, Subhuman Was Often Shared By White Master And Black Ex-slave Alike.