Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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I blundered into writing.
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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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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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I am nobody but myself.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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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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Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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