“I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”

—  Ralph Ellison, book Invisible Man

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

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