“They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him”
Source: Invisible Man
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Ralph Ellison 82
American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer 1914–1994Related quotes


“I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.”
As quoted in The Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins, 1558-1648 (1935) by Will Durant, p. 605
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