• If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

  Ralph Ellison
  American writer and essayist 1914-1994
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. imprison
2. destroy
3. power
4. blind

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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. by : Ralph Ellison

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