I am nobody but myself.
RALPH ELLISONThe end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
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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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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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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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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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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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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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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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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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