Quotes by : Ralph Ellison

The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men’s House I was overcome by a sense of alienation....

And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that....

So now they're shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to hear.....

I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized....

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate....

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones....

I had no doubt that I could do something, but what, and how? I had no contacts and I believed in nothing.....

Can it be, I thought, can it actually be? .......could he be all of them: Rine the runner and Rine the....