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taco, bird/cat :verified420:<blockquote>All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. 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.</blockquote><a href="https://meow.social/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/InvisibleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InvisibleMan</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Book</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/Booktodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Booktodon</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a>

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taco, bird/cat :verified420:started reading Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison<blockquote>Now I have one radio-phonograph; I plan to have five.</blockquote>he just like me, fr.<a href="https://meow.social/tags/InvisibleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InvisibleMan</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Book</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a>

grechawBeen reading Invisible Man"I felt as though I'd been watching a bad comedy. Only it was real and I was living it and it was the only historically meaningful life that I could live. If I left it, I'd be nowhere. As dead and meaningless as Clifton."<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ralphellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ralphellison</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History April 16, 1994: Ralph Ellison died on this day. Ellison was a member of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his book, The Invisible Man. He was friends with Langston Hughes and Richard Wright. He became active in the Communist Party, as did many of his peers. But he became disillusioned with them during World War II when he felt they became reformist. He wrote The Invisible Man during this era (published in 1952), in part, as a response their betrayal. But the book also looks at the relationship between black identity and Marxism, the reformism of Booker T. Washington, and issues of individuality and personal identity.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ralphellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ralphellison</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Harlem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Harlem</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marxism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackMastadon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

Waywords Studio𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: "𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝑼𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒚" - What do we mean by uncertainty? And why do we want to look for it?This episode, we scour from jazz music to Rubik's Cubes, and from Gatsby to Ellison, from Obama to Carroll, to make sense of it. And there's nothing less than world transformation at stake.<a href="https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/reading-and-living-in-uncertainty/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/reading-and-living-in-uncertainty/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/literarynomads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literarynomads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#podcast</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meaning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/barackobama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#barackobama</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ralphellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ralphellison</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fscottfitzgerald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fscottfitzgerald</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thegreatgatsby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thegreatgatsby</a>

(((Cindy Weinstein)))Some of my must-read books for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackHistoryMonth</a>.<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PercivalEverett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PercivalEverett</a>: JAMES and The Trees <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/JasonMott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JasonMott</a>: Hell of a Book <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ToniMorrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ToniMorrison</a>: Beloved <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MauriceCarlosRuffin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MauriceCarlosRuffin</a>: We Cast a Shadow <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SolomonNorthup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SolomonNorthup</a>: 12 Years A Slave <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HarrietJacobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HarrietJacobs</a>: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a>: Invisible Man <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DanzySenna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DanzySenna</a>: Colored Television<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LitStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LitStudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books</a>

(((Cindy Weinstein)))Some of my must-read books for <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackHistoryMonth</a>.<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PercivalEverett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PercivalEverett</a>: JAMES and The Trees <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/JasonMott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JasonMott</a>: Hell of a Book <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ToniMorrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ToniMorrison</a>: Beloved <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MauriceCarlosRuffin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MauriceCarlosRuffin</a>: We Cast a Shadow <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SolomonNorthup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SolomonNorthup</a>: 12 Years A Slave <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/HarrietJacobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HarrietJacobs</a>: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a>: Invisible Man <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/DanzySenna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DanzySenna</a>: Colored Television<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/LitStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LitStudies</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books</a>

JennyThe Invisible Freshman<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BookASongOrPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookASongOrPoem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HashTagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HashTagGames</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TheInvisibleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheInvisibleMan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TheFreshmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheFreshmen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TheVervePipe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheVervePipe</a> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/@hashtaggames" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@hashtaggames</a>

cuNha"Hoje em dia, o meu mundo é feito de infinitas possibilidades. Que frase! Ainda assim, é uma boa frase e uma boa atitude perante a vida; o ser humano não devia aceitar outra; isso, ao menos, aprendi debaixo da terra. Até que um grupo consiga colocar o mundo numa camisa de forças, essa definição é possível e viável." — Ralph Ellison, Homem Invisível<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a> publicou apenas um romance. Um chegou.

cuNha*“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”*<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/InvisibleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InvisibleMan</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a>

Art in a Blanket Fort“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?” ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible ManDisillusionment best describes this book.Sixth literary classic on this list:<a href="https://www.britannica.com/list/12-novels-considered-the-greatest-book-ever-written" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.britannica.com/list/12-novels-considered-the-greatest-book-ever-written</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/LiteraryClassics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LiteraryClassics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Booksodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Booksodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/InvisibleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InvisibleMan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a>

James PhelpsPeople and books that helped form who I am today:<a href="https://ohai.social/tags/GrahamGreene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GrahamGreene</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/JohnUpdike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnUpdike</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/WalkerPercy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WalkerPercy</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/kurtvonnegutjr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kurtvonnegutjr</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/JohnIrving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnIrving</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/HermannHesse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HermannHesse</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/LorenEiseley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LorenEiseley</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/JamesBaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesBaldwin</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/JohnSteinbeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnSteinbeck</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/RayBradbury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RayBradbury</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/FrankHerbert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FrankHerbert</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/StrangerInAStrangeLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StrangerInAStrangeLand</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/MalcomX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MalcomX</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/KimStanleyRobinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KimStanleyRobinson</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/JulianJaynes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JulianJaynes</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/SomeTimesAGreatNotion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SomeTimesAGreatNotion</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/WendellBerry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WendellBerry</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/WhatArePeopleFor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhatArePeopleFor</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/EdwardAbbey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EdwardAbbey</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/DesertSolitaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DesertSolitaire</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/TomRussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TomRussell</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/CarlHiaasen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CarlHiaasen</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/MichaelPollan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelPollan</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/BotanyOfDesire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BotanyOfDesire</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/PattiSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PattiSmith</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/MichaelStipe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelStipe</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/DavidSedaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DavidSedaris</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/CormacMcCarthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CormacMcCarthy</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®2/2“And it is here precisely that ethnic resistance is least effective. On this level the melting pot did indeed melt, creating such deceptive metamorphoses and blending of identities, values and life-styles that most American whites are culturally part Negro American without even realizing it.”<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/absurdism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#absurdism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a>

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Cole Haddon"I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest." – Ralph Ellison<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackCulture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackArt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writerscommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writerscommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creativity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inspiration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inspiration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/storytelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#storytelling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/screenwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#screenwriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creativewriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creativewriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingtips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingtips</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writinglife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amwriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>

Tony Pennino“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BlackHistoryMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackHistoryMatters</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BLM</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LitStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LitStudies</a>

tmccormick"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). <a href="https://archive.org/details/invisibleman00elli/page/14/mode/1up?q=%22It+took+me+a+long+time%22&view=theater" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/invisibleman00elli/page/14/mode/1up?q=%22It+took+me+a+long+time%22&view=theater</a>. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/InvisibleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InvisibleMan</a>

tmccormick"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). <a href="https://archive.org/details/invisibleman00elli/page/14/mode/1up?q=%22It+took+me+a+long+time%22&view=theater" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/invisibleman00elli/page/14/mode/1up?q=%22It+took+me+a+long+time%22&view=theater</a>. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/BlackLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackLiterature</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/RalphEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphEllison</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/InvisibleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InvisibleMan</a>

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