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Ralph Ellison

“..and knowing now who I was and where I was and knowing too that I had no longer to run for or from the Jack's and the Emerson's and the Bledsoe's and the Norton's...but only from their confusion and impatience and refusal to recognize the beautiful absurdity of their American identity...and mine...”

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