"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."
-Ralph Ellison
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