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Only Quotes by Ralph Ellison
- The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human…
- If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society,…
- 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…
- I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
- 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…
- I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
- What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to…
- 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…
- I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though…
- The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.
- Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the…
- All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers…
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