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The more I read of Ralph Ellison, and about Ralph Ellison, the less I like him. He comes off as pompous, reactionary, inflexible. But passages like this make me doubt that assessment. Speaking of cultural pluralism in the American experience...
"It is very difficult in this country to find a pure situation. Usually when you find some assertion of purity, you are dealing with historical, if not cultural ignorance."
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"It is very difficult in this country to find a pure situation. Usually when you find some assertion of purity, you are dealing with historical, if not cultural ignorance."
