Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
RALPH ELLISONThe truth is the light and the light is the truth.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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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.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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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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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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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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Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
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And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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