“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.”
—Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal" (1914–1994) African American novelist, literary critic, scholar, writer.
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Another true statement. I believe we all enter into this involvement at some point in our lives. Some simply enter and move along towards finding the answers. Others dwell and end up losing all direction.
But this is definitely truth, regardless of all else.
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