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Ralph Ellison

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Ralph Ellison

Birthname

Birthday: March 1, 1913

Death: April 16, 1994

Educated At: Tuskegee University

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Essayist, Music Critic, Autobiographer, Literary Critic, Novelist

Total quotes: 1

“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”

— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Tagged: Invisibility, Perception, Objectification

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