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Quotes from Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke — Ralph Ellison

1913–1994 United States

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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke (1958)

Deep at the dark bottom of the melting pot, where the private is public and the public private, where black is white and white black, where the immoral becomes moral and the moral is anything that makes one feel good (or that one has the power to sustain), the white man's relish is apt to be the black man's gall.

Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke (1958)

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