"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. Invisible Man (1952).
https://archive.org/details/invisibleman00elli/page/14/mode/1up?q=%22It+took+me+a+long+time%22&view=theater. #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan

"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. Invisible Man (1952).
https://archive.org/details/invisibleman00elli/page/14/mode/1up?q=%22It+took+me+a+long+time%22&view=theater. #BlackLiterature #quotes #RalphEllison #InvisibleMan