The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
RALPH ELLISONWords are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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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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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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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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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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I’m not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That’s how you make the new — by putting something else with what you’ve got. And I’m unashamedly an American integrationist.
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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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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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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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