When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
Ralph Ellison
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison
I 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 Ellison
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.