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  • By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

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    Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.176, Vintage

  • God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

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    Ralph Ellison (2010). “Three Days Before the Shooting . . .”, p.987, Modern Library

  • That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.

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    Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.237, Modern Library
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Ralph Ellison

  • Born: March 1, 1913
  • Died: April 16, 1994
  • Occupation: Novelist
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