"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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