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:
“I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.””
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.”
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“Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man’s recognition of his own negative potential—with his sense of what he is capable of.”
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