It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
RALPH ELLISONI’m not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That’s how you make the new — by putting something else with what you’ve got. And I’m unashamedly an American integrationist.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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I blundered into writing.
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Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.” Stephen Covey “It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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I am nobody but myself.
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