But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand. Ralph Ellison
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The things we see and touch are usually linked to concepts we have in our minds. It is only through the visual and the physical that we can come to grips with the idea of something. Through a telescope we look at things that we cannot see without, and through our hands we feel the texture of what we cannot see. We must understand that physical things can be magical, and that magic can come from what is seen and touched.

Source: Juneteenth

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