American - Author | March 1, 1914 - April 16, 1994
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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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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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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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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