America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
RALPH ELLISONMy hole is warm and full of light.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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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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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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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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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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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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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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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
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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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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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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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