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. (Ralph Ellison)

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.

Ralph Ellison

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