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Ralph Ellison
 
Date of birth: 01 March 1913
Date of death: 16 April 1994
Country Of Origin: America
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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
" 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
" Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural _expression. "

Ralph Ellison
" 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
" I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. "

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" 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
" 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. "

Ralph Ellison
" The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. "

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" The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing. "

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" When I discover who I am, I'll be free."

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