I blundered into writing.
RALPH ELLISONMeaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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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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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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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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Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
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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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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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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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You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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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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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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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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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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