Quotes by Ralph Ellison

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

#Ralph Ellison

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

#Ralph Ellison

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

#Ralph Ellison

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

#Ralph Ellison

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

#Ralph Ellison

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

#Ralph Ellison

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

#Ralph Ellison

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of...

#Jazz

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

#Ralph Ellison

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

#Grandparents, #Slavery

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

#Power

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

#Philosophy