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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.

Ralph Ellison

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.
RALPH ELLISON

Contradictory Freedom Long Shout Sing Song Unison Voice
And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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Fail Fear Issue Loose My Own Problem Try Way
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
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
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
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
If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
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Art Justice Love Miracle Protest Social
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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Asking Being Yourself Individuality Myself Query Question
The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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Beautiful Exploit Explore Life Meaning Things To Do
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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Awesome Day Dancer Enjoy Feel Musician Play Scene Style
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
And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
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Coveive Live Lose Mind Pattern Plan Sight
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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Ancestor Emotion Family People Relationship
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
I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
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Feeling Bad Loose Low Needs Sad Territory Unhappy Worst
…and yet I am what they think I am.
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Believe Dream Good Inspiration One Liner Positive Success Thinking

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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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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