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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.

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
Inspirational, Confidence, Power
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, Ch. 6, 1952.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Ralph Ellison
Inspirational, Life, Inspiring
Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.254, Vintage

It goes a long way back, some twenty years. 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 naive. 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. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!

Ralph Ellison
Inspirational, Being Yourself, Men
Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage

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