You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.
RALPH ELLISONEducation is all a matter of building bridges.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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I’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.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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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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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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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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I blundered into writing.
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the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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