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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."

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"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."

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"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."
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"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy."
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"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead."
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"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."
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"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."
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"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
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