Ralph Ellison on motivation
Ralph Ellison78 quotes“It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.”
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison 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.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison My hole is warm and full of light.
Ralph EllisonRalph 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.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison 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.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison 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.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison 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
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
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