Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
RALPH ELLISONWords 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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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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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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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form…without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death…the truth is the light and light is the truth.
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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 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 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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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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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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