Quotes by Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison

American writer and essayist

Lived from: 1914 - 1994

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United States

Born: 1 march 1914 Died: 16 april 1994

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• 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
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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.

  ― Ralph Ellison
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Subjects in these quotes:

• understand
• substance
• imprison
• possess
• because
• potency

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