The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
RALPH ELLISON
In order to travel far you have to be detached.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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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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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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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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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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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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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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