“Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”

— Ralph Ellison , book Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 6.

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American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer 1914–1994

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