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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.

Ralph Ellison

We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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Enough Morning Museum Sun
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
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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Bridge Dream Education High School Graduation Success
Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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Faces Harsh Injustice Reveal Seen Show Visible
God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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Art Bless God Identity Moksha Pray Shadow Truth
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Change Commitment Committed Deep Grow Grows
the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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Aim Concentrate Focus Ornery Plan Task Wonderful World
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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Hate Honest Life Satisfied Success Try Work
I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Awake Dream Invisible Remember Sleep Walk World
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Ahead Beginning End Love Lying Motivation Support
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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Act Circle Commitment Involvement Study Work
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Difficult Fiction Good Made Real Reality
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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Good Time Identity Memories Memory Odds Punctual Remember
In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Choice Day Desperate Live Music
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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Act Frequency Knowledge Knows Lower Motivation Speak
And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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Absurdity Awesome Better Die Life Live Share

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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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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