"Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us...There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others."  ---Romare Bearden

"I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids_and I might even be said to possess a mind.  I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."---Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)