Author Name

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Author : Ralph Ellison

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

Author : Ralph Ellison

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.

Author : Ralph Ellison

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

Author : Ralph Ellison

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

Author : Ralph Ellison

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.

Author : Ralph Ellison

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

Author : Ralph Ellison

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

Author : Ralph Ellison

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

Author : Ralph Ellison

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Author : Ralph Ellison