Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You — Ralph Ellison
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You — Ralph Ellison
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You — Ralph Ellison
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You — Ralph Ellison
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You — Ralph Ellison
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

— Ralph Ellison
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