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Ralph Ellison

“We create the race by creating ourselves and then to our great astonishment we will have created something far more important: We will have created a culture. Why waste time creating a conscience for something that doesn't exist? For, you see, blood and skin do not think!”

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Invisible Man Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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