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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’

Ralph Ellison

I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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Ditch Guilt Hurt Invisibility Pain Sorror
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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Act Circle Commitment Involvement Study Work
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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Experience Grandfather Mind Side Start Trying Young
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Difficult Fiction Good Made Real Reality
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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Awake Dream Invisible Remember Sleep Walk World
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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Adult Certain Illegal Individual Minorities Permission Prohibited
We don’t all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.
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Art Depend Humanity Understanding Will
Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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Hope Man Picture Soaring Vulture
If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
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Art Justice Love Miracle Protest Social
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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Emotion Fairy Stories Faith Fiction Heart Leaving Love Loyal Reality Science
…and yet I am what they think I am.
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Believe Dream Good Inspiration One Liner Positive Success Thinking
The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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Beautiful Exploit Explore Life Meaning Things To Do
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Control Enjoy Failure Happy Humanity Inspiring Life
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Black History People Refuse Understand Visible
My hole is warm and full of light.
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Holes Life Light One Liner Positive Warm Women
I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
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Feeling Bad Loose Low Needs Sad Territory Unhappy Worst

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