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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Ralph Ellison
Born: March 1, 1914
Died: April 16, 1994 (aged 80)
Bio: Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.
Known for:
- Invisible Man (1952)
- Shadow and Act (1964)
- Juneteenth
- Living with Music
- Going to the territory (1986)
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