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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Ralph Ellison

I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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Ditch Guilt Hurt Invisibility Pain Sorror
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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Bind Imprison Political Politics Potency Power Revive
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
Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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Hope Man Picture Soaring Vulture
Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
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Danger Feel Inspire Motivation Losing Sense Where
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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Being Yourself Ego Expectation Life Love Respect Self Self Esteem
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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Act Frequency Knowledge Knows Lower Motivation Speak
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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Emotion Fairy Stories Faith Fiction Heart Leaving Love Loyal Reality Science
Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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Action Brain Forget Knowledge Possibility Power
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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Action Activity Energy Form Mind Power Shapes
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.
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Art Blue Circumstance Failing Human Irrepressible Music
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
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
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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Chaos Desire Emerge Giving Patterns Positive Try
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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Art Chart Current Life Man Philosophy Reduce Sea
Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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Faces Harsh Injustice Reveal Seen Show Visible

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