Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form...without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one's form is to live a death...the truth is the light and light is the truth.
Ralph EllisonI am an invisible man. 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.
Ralph EllisonIn those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
Ralph EllisonPower, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
Ralph Ellison