Invisible Man
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"Invisible Man" Quotes

By Ralph Ellison

classics | 581 pages | Published in 1952

ISBN_13: 9999999999999

Quotes

I am an invisible man.

Ralph Ellison

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

Ralph Ellison

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Ralph Ellison

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

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.

Ralph Ellison

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

Ralph Ellison

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth.

Ralph Ellison

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

Ralph Ellison

The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

Ralph Ellison

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

Ralph Ellison