Ralph Ellison Foundation

The Ralph Ellison Foundation exists to celebrate the life and work of the acclaimed author and to empower the lives of others through his legacy.

[Ralph Ellison Foundation @RalphEllisonOKC]

Life Aboard a Slave Ship | History https://t.co/1WvPHel3zU via @YouTube
Middle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the New World.
#BlackHistory

[Mayor David Holt @davidfholt]

Dr. Melvin Todd was a giant. I was thrilled to meet him through @RalphEllisonOKC & was deeply honored to have his support when I sought this office. We send our deepest condolences to his family, and all those we have lost from COVID-19.

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“Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.’”

Ellison, Invisible Man, Epilogue

#staywoke #actionsspeaklouderthanwords

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At new OKC Black-owned bookstore, "We just want them to come into a place and see themselves" https://t.co/oaS5b5Z69n

Proud! We will livestream this Saturday's Ellison Young Reader's Club from Belle's Books via Instagram at 10:30 am. See https://t.co/cm4rqiaGvL for more!

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Join us this THURSDAY afternoon, 5:30 on 11/19, for an online installment of our Light Bulb Room series of conversational forums: IS AMERICA CHANGING? Visit https://t.co/AkcB2X5Q1A to register for this Zoom event and get ready for a vibrant discussion!

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#ralphellison #ralphellisonfoundation #historyrepeats #invisibleman #truthandreconciliation

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“Closed societies are now the flimsiest of illusions, for all the outsiders are demanding in.”

Ralph Ellison, "Society, Morality and the Novel,” 1957

#ralphellison #inclusionmatters

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“I feel that to embrace uncritically values which are extended to us by others is to reject the validity, even the sacredness, of our own experience.”

Ralph Ellison, 1964

#ralphellison #history #wakeup

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"The passing of John Lewis deprives the United States of its foremost warrior in a battle for racial justice... Americans — and particularly his colleagues in Congress — can best honor his memory by picking up where he left off."

From an @nytimes editorial 7/17/20 #johnlewis

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“A tremor shook me...and I was overcome with swift shame. I realized that I no longer knew my own name.”

—_Invisible Man_
#ralphellison #invisibleman

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“We do not bury the past, because it is within us.”

—Ralph Ellison, Commencement Address at the College of William and Mary, 1972

#ralphellison #ralphellisonfoundation #monument #memory

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Artwork by Liu Bolin. Don’t let this happen this 4th of July. You can’t have the red-white-and-blue without the black. Let’s celebrate reaching towards a more just and perfect union.

#ralphellison #FourthofJuly #america #americanflag #invisibleman #StopTheHate

[Ralph Ellison Foundation @RalphEllisonOKC]

Where we are and what we do. #gwendolynbrooks #TogetherWeCan

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Violin vigil for Elijah Lewis. #JusticeForElijahMcClain #musicheals #ralphellison #ralphellisonfoundation

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Mr. Ellison's words very relevant... #deception #Gaslighting #SocialJustice #BlackLivesMatter #SayTheirNames #ralphellison #ralphellisonfoundation #blackauthors #writers #Read

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Great article @NewYorker @untitledproject. Thank you for honoring Mr. Ellison & preserving his legacy. #ralphellison #ralphellisonfoundation #BlackLivesMatter #blackauthors #JuneteenthDay #read

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"Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion. " - Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth #EmancipationDay #freedom #JUNETEENTH2020

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Juneteenth celebration (ca. 1900). "We shall demonstrate once again that in this great, inventive land man’s idlest dreams are but the blueprints and mockups of emerging realities, technologies and poems." - Ralph Ellison, _Juneteenth_

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From the funeral oration for Tod Clifton in #invisibleman. Search it and read it, everyone. #georgefloyd #BreonnaTaylor #AhmaudArbery #ralphellison