They were very much the same, each attempting to force his … - Ralph Ellison

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They were very much the same, each attempting to force his picture of reality upon me and neither giving a hoot in hell for how things looked to me.

Ralph Ellison

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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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