Cheryl Machak

“Live with your head in the lion’s mouth.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“It was unbelievable, but perhaps only the unbelievable could be believed. Perhaps the truth was always a lie.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“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, Invisible Man

“It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.


'How do you get to West Egg village?' he asked helplessly.

I told him. Ans as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He has casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald