To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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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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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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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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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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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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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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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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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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