Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
RALPH ELLISONInjustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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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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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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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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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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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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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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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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It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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