I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.
Source: c. 1960.
-- Ralph Ellison, (Mar 1 1914-1994), US author; He proclaimed the beginning of the 1960s civil rights movement with his novel The Invisible Man, 1952.