Ralph Ellison
10 quotes
“Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. Shadow and Act (New York: Random House, 1964), Introduction, p. xix; in The Collected Essays , ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 56.”
“What These Children Are Like”
“The Golden Age, Time Past”
“Some Questions and Some Answers”
“The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing. "Remembering Jimmy " (1958), in The Collected Essays , ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 277.”
“Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke”
“Society, Morality and the Novel”
“The Art of Fiction: An Interview”
“Brave Words for a Startling Occasion”
“Richard Wright 's Blues”