I blundered into writing.
RALPH ELLISONThe clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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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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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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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.
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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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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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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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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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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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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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