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Ralph Ellison

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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.


— Ralph Ellison


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I'd been so fascinated by the motion that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming.


— Ralph Ellison


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Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion.


— Ralph Ellison


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Boo'ful," she said, "life could be so diff'rent—" "But it never is," I said.


— Ralph Ellison


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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.


— Ralph Ellison


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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.


— Ralph Ellison


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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.


— Ralph Ellison


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Education is all a matter of building bridges.


— Ralph Ellison


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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.


— Ralph Ellison


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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


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" In the wake of this disillusion Ellison began writing Invisible Man a novel that was in part his response to the party's betrayal. Writing essays about both the black experience and his love for jazz music Ellison continued to receive major awards for his work.

Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1 1914 – April 16 1994) was an American novelist literary critic scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City Oklahoma. He also wrote Shadow and Act (1964) a collection of political social and critical essays and Going to the Territory (1986).

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