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Certain Quotes by Ralph Ellison
- America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of…
- All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is…
- All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
- Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
- So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action,…
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