Recognition
"Flying Home" is mentioned in the Autobiography of Malcolm X and in 1996 it won a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. It is featured (together with a Lindy hop dance arrangement) in the film Malcolm X.
Ralph Ellison titled a short story, "Flying Home" (1944) for the song, which eventually became the title of a posthumous collection of short stories.
"Flying Home" is the title of a 1978 novel by Morris Lurie. Lurie uses references to jazz in his stories.
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Famous quotes containing the word recognition:
“That the world can be improved and yet must be celebrated as it is are contradictions. The beginning of maturity may be the recognition that both are true.”
—William Stott (b. 1940)
“No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still the most important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.”
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