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.
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Ralph Ellison
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About Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Ralph EllisonThe understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is,…