Ralph Ellison Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

  Ralph Ellison

  Art, Shadow, Identity

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Three Days Before the Shooting . . .”, p.987, Modern Library

• By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

  Ralph Ellison

  Communication, Writing, Identity

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.176, Vintage

• That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.

  Ralph Ellison

  Memories, Odds, Identity

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.237, Modern Library

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