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Ralph Ellison Quotes

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
Ralph Ellison

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Date of Birth:
March 1, 1914
Date of Death:
April 16, 1994
Nationality:
American
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Select Ralph Ellison Quotations:
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
Ralph Ellison

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
Ralph Ellison

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.
Ralph Ellison

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Ralph Ellison

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
Ralph Ellison


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All Ralph Ellison Quotations:
America is woven of many strands...
By and large, the critics and...
Eclecticism is the word. Like a...
Education is all a matter of...
Good fiction is made of that...
Had the price of looking been...
Hibernation is a covert preparation for...
I am an invisible man. I...
I am invisible, understand, simply because people...
I am not ashamed of my...
If the word has the potency...
Life is to be lived, not...
Some people are your relatives but...
The act of writing requires a...
The end is in the beginning...
The understanding of art depends finally...
There are few things in the...
There must be possible a fiction...
When I discover who I am...

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