... as a better person. After he wrote Invisible Man, many people started to draw comparisons between Ralph Ellison and Edgar Allen Poe. After hearing these comparisons, Ralph Ellison said one of his best quotes ever. "No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids ... ...

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