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.
RALPH ELLISONI am nobody but myself.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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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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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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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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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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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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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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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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