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

Quote by Ralph Ellison

Topics: Grandparents Quotes, Slavery Quotes

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones...

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones...

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

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

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

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

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists,...

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists,...

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's...

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's...

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also...

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also...

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried...

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried...

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

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

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity...

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity...

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain....

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain....

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and...

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and...

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

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

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone,...

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone,...

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come...

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come...

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

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

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church...

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church...

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed...

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed...

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.