The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
RALPH ELLISONInjustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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I am nobody but myself.
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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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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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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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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form…without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death…the truth is the light and light is the truth.
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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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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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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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God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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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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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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