Ralph Ellison Biography

"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids-and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination--indeed, everything and anything except me." -Ralph Ellison, Prologue of Invisible ManClick here for link to radio broadcast about Ralph EllisonKALI CHECK THIS LINK WHEN U GET HOME Ralph Ellison Picture Citation

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