America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
RALPH ELLISONI blundered into writing.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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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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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
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God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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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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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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I blundered into writing.
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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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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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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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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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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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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