Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more and brighter light. The truth is the light and light is the truth. - Ralph Ellison

The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

But on the other hand, it would be a great mistake to assume that the dead are absolutely powerless.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

They can laugh, but they can't deny us. They can curse and kill us, but they can't destroy us. This land is ours because we come out of it, we bled in it, our tears watered it, we fertilized it with our dead. So the more of us they destroy, the more it becomes filled with the spirit of our redemption.