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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."
"I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human."
"The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves."
Explore more quotes by Ralph Ellison
"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy."
"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."
"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."
"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
"Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values."
"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."
"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."
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