For their most innocent words were acts of violence to which we of the campus were hypersensitive though we endured them not.
Ralph EllisonYes, they think we're dumb. They call us the "common people." But I've been sitting here listening and looking and trying to understand what's so common about us. I think they're guilty of a gross mis-statement of fact-we are the uncommon people-
Ralph EllisonTags: humanity common-man
I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
Ralph EllisonAll my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.
Ralph EllisonTags: self-discovery peers invisible-man
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.
Ralph EllisonI could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.
Ralph EllisonTags: revenge fiction invisible-man ralph-ellison
You're very insistent, but I'm very busy.
Ralph EllisonTimes are grave and you seem very indignant.
Ralph EllisonTags: indignant
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