The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
RALPH ELLISONIf 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.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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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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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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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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My hole is warm and full of light.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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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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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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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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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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I am nobody but myself.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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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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