When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
RALPH ELLISONInjustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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I blundered into writing.
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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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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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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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My hole is warm and full of light.
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.
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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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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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I am nobody but myself.
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Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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