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Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison
American Author
Born: Mar 1, 1914
Died: Apr 16, 1994
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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Ralph Ellison
Life Humanity Face Defeat Continuing Won Controlled Certain Lived Play
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Ralph Ellison
Me People See Simply Invisible Because Understand Am Refuse
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
Relationship You Yourself People Relatives Values Some People Others Ancestors Those Out Some Want Create Your Choose
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
Me Man People Mind Fiber Bone Possess See Simply Invisible Because Understand Said Am Liquid Substance Refuse Might Flesh Even
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers. Ralph Ellison
World Dangerous Few Few Things Things
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. Ralph Ellison
Looking Would Price Had Looked Blindness Been
When I discover who I am, I'll be free. Ralph Ellison
Free Am Discover Who
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
Me You Communication Yourself Writing Sense Gave Others Critics Writer Importance Know Identity Readers Within Form After Might Large Utmost Utmost Importance
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. Ralph Ellison
Word Style Own Jazz Musician Out Like Him Around Styles His Creates Jazz Musician Who Play Ear
Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. Ralph Ellison
Action Preparation More Covert
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. Ralph Ellison
Good Reality Made Difficult Come Real Fiction Which
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. Ralph Ellison
Truth Possible Must Magic About Case Tale Fairy Fairy Tale Leaving Scientists Arrive Condition Histories Human Fiction Human Condition Which Bright Now Here Sociology

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