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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.

Ralph Ellison

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Ralph Ellison is saying that while family members are given to you by birth, the people whose beliefs and actions you admire and adopt become like your chosen ancestors. These selected influences shape your identity and the principles you live by.

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