Ralph ellison quotes and sayings
1. "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. 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, Invisible Man
2. "Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat." - Ralph Ellison
3. "I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed." - Ralph Ellison
4. "Education is all a matter of building bridges." - Ralph Ellison
5. "When I discover who I am, I'll be free." - Ralph Ellison
6. "Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it." - Ralph Ellison
7. "The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead." - Ralph Ellison
8. "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, Invisible Man
9. "The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life." - Ralph Ellison
10. "The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism." - Ralph Ellison
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