God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
Ralph EllisonPerhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
Ralph EllisonI was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man.
Ralph Ellison