Creative Quotations from . . .
Ralph Ellison
(1914-1994) born on Mar 01
US author. "He proclaimed the beginning of the 1960s civil rights movement with his novel "The Invisible Man", 1952."
 
   
F
Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

R
I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.
A
"The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. Or, as Emerson insisted, the development of consciousness, consciousness, consciousness."
N
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghost-like.
K
"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""The Invisible Man," 1952."
R: c. 1960.
A: "Speech, 1974."
N: "In "Writers at Work," by George Plimpton, 1963."
K: ""The Invisible Man," 1952."



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