Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
RALPH ELLISONMeaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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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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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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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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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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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
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Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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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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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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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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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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