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Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Ralph Ellison

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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Advantage Motivation Nerve Proud Shine Solitude Unseen Wear
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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Desire Expected Happiness Lost Satisfy Trying Wish
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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Act Individual Life Men Minor Minority Novel Universal
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Hobby Myself Past Require Shadow Skill Value Writing
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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Believe Confidence Inspirational Power Trust
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
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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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Answer Boys Business Keys Question Rock Word
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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Caring Cop Gun Poet Thought Trigger Word
We don’t all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.
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Art Depend Humanity Understanding Will
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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Black History Fame Fiber Invisible Life Luck Men People Substance
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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Imagination Implement Innovation Integrative Judge Plan Solution Task
In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Detached Explore Journey Memories Order Travel
To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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Ashamed Fear Guilt Hell Like Scary Showcase
The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Discover Found Miracle Moral Possibility Shine World
America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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Copy Exact Recognize Same Strand Unchanged Woven
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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Coveive Live Lose Mind Pattern Plan Sight

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