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Ralph Ellison

(1914–1994)

U.S. novelist, essayist, and literary critic

“You have to take care of yourself, son. Don’t let this Harlem git you. I’m in New York, but New York ain’t in me, understand what I mean? Don’t git corrupted.”

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source: Invisible Man (New York: Vintage International, 1995), second edition, 255.

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medium: fiction

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