His name was Clifton and he was black and they shot him. Isn’t that enough to tell? Isn’t it all you need to know? - Ralph Ellison

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His name was Clifton and he was black and they shot him. Isn’t that enough to tell? Isn’t it all you need to know?

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About Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer and academic known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.

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Alternative Names: Ralph Waldo Ellison
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You're a Black educated fool, son. These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the world a lie, they can tell it so well that it becomes the truth; and if I tell them you're lying, they'll tell the world even if you prove you're telling the truth. Because it's the kind of lie they want to hear.

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