“Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.”

—  Aberjhani

(Love, Art, and Culture, p. 23).
Book Sources, The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)

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