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.
RALPH ELLISONI’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.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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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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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.
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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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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.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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