Ralph Ellison Quotes About Being Yourself

Quotes about: Being Yourself

• It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

  Ralph Ellison

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Expectations

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

• It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!

  Ralph Ellison

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Men

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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

  Ralph Ellison

  Being Yourself, Individuality, Asking

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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