Ralph Ellison Quotes

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. - Ralph Ellison

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. - Ralph Ellison

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. - Ralph Ellison

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