Ralph Ellison Quotes About Life
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.
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America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many - This in not prophecy, but description.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
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That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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