Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
RALPH ELLISONHaving tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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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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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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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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Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
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Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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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.
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I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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I blundered into writing.
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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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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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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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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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