The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
RALPH ELLISONThere are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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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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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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I am nobody but myself.
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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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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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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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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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 my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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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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