Education is all a matter of building bridges.
RALPH ELLISONEvery serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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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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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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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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I blundered into writing.
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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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I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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