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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.
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Contradictory Freedom Long Shout Sing Song Unison Voice
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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Good Time Identity Memories Memory Odds Punctual Remember
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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Emotion Fairy Stories Faith Fiction Heart Leaving Love Loyal Reality Science
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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Activity Attention God Hollywood Hunt Invisible Men Risk Spook
…and yet I am what they think I am.
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Believe Dream Good Inspiration One Liner Positive Success Thinking
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
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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 denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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Ditch Guilt Hurt Invisibility Pain Sorror
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Ahead Beginning End Love Lying Motivation Support
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Difficult Fiction Good Made Real Reality
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
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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Aim Concentrate Focus Ornery Plan Task Wonderful World
My hole is warm and full of light.
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Holes Life Light One Liner Positive Warm Women
We don’t all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.
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Art Depend Humanity Understanding Will
Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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Almighty Good Merry Go Round Sacrifice Wanted
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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Black History Fame Fiber Invisible Life Luck Men People Substance

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