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Quotes from Brave Words for a Startling Occasion — Ralph Ellison

1913–1994 United States

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Our task then is always to challenge the apparent forms of reality—that is, the fixed meaning and values of the few—and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false faces, and on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.

Brave Words for a Startling Occasion (1953)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ralph Ellison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.