When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
Ralph EllisonTags: freedom identity self-discovery independence self-awareness
We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
Ralph EllisonAnd I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.
Ralph EllisonLife is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph EllisonTags: life humanity control defeat
Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
Ralph EllisonTags: inspirational
I knew that it was better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others.
Ralph EllisonWhat and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
Ralph EllisonIt goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!
Ralph EllisonTags: literature fiction self-discovery
I am an invisible man. No I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen 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, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph EllisonThere 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.
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