Education is all a matter of building bridges.
RALPH ELLISONEducation is all a matter of building bridges.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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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.
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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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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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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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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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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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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.
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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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