Oklahoman
TULSA In 1975, iconic Oklahoma writer Ralph Ellison returned to his home state to be honored and left it with a message: that through art and literature, we are able to free ourselves from the limitations of today.” He talked about the role of literature and the art in allowing us to process the world that we re in, said Sara O’Keeffe, the Nancy E. Meinig Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Tulsa s Philbrook Museum of Art. What s beautiful about the speech is he d come back because a library was getting named in his honor. . It was significant for him because the library system had been segregated in Oklahoma, and so growing up for him, it was difficult to go to certain libraries.