Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Ralph Ellison

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
-1955 Paris Review interview

2 comments:

Rebecca Waring said...

I read 'The Invisible Man' and then I took a class called 'Literature and Democracy' with him at NYU. He sucked as a teacher but he was a great writer.

the last noel said...

Thanks for this quote. E-gad, I'm a minority three times then?