To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
RALPH ELLISONThat … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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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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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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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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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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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form…without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death…the truth is the light and light is the truth.
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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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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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