America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
RALPH ELLISON…and yet I am what they think I am.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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I am nobody but myself.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
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