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Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (1952)

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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.

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Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

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Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison
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Born: March 1, 1914
Died: April 16, 1994 (aged 80)
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