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Firsts Quotes by Ralph Ellison
- And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first…
- It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to…
- For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action,…
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