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| Ellison's parents named him "Ralph Waldo" after Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the great American transcendentalists. | |
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| Now, can anybody tell me who Ralph Waldo Ellison is? Find Waldo in the literary canon. Where's Waldo? | |
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| He wrote The Invisible Man. | |
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| Yeah yeah yeah, good good good. And can you find a relationship between The Invisible Man and Transcendentalism? | |
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| A borrowed white man's name ain't never had that much control over a black man's thoughts. | |
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