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

Ralph Ellison

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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Ability Humanity Little Lying Power Reveal Writer
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
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
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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America Fate Loyal Recognise Share Strand Woven
Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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Faces Harsh Injustice Reveal Seen Show Visible
If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn’t care as long as they sang without dissonance.
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Contradictory Freedom Long Shout Sing Song Unison Voice
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
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
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
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
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
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
My hole is warm and full of light.
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Holes Life Light One Liner Positive Warm Women
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Control Enjoy Failure Happy Humanity Inspiring Life
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
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

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