Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
RALPH ELLISONWithout the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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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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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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I blundered into writing.
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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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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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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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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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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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