The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
RALPH ELLISONEducation is all a matter of building bridges.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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I blundered into writing.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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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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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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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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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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