by Dan | Oct 1, 2019 | Music
“The only ones I even pretend to please are big white folk, and even those I control more than they control me. This is a power set-up, son, and I’m at the controls” (p. 140). “These white folks have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to get their ideas across....
by Dan | Sep 12, 2019 | music
Ellison begins his novel: “I am an invisible man” (p. 3). Charles Johnson articulates the profound significance of this statement: “And, as if this were not enough, Ellison gave our age a new metaphor for social alienation. His definition of ‘invisibility’...
