#Ralph Ellison

To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

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Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

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“To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.” Ralph Ellison

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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

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For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress

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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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Running from the birds to what, I didn’t know. I ran. Why was I here at all? I ran through the night, ran within myself. Ran.

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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in

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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

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Running from the birds to what, I didn’t know. I ran. Why was I here at all? I ran through the night, ran within myself. Ran.

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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

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Running from the birds to what, I didn’t know. I ran. Why was I here at all? I ran through the night, ran within myself. Ran.

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What a group of people we were, I thought. Why, you could cause us the greatest humiliation simply by confronting us

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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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