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Ralph Ellison

“And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love. I sell you no phony forgiveness, I'm a desperate man – but too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate. So I approach it through division so I denounce and I defend and I hate and I love.”

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Invisible Man Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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