It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
RALPH ELLISONWhen I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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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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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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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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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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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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I’m not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That’s how you make the new — by putting something else with what you’ve got. And I’m unashamedly an American integrationist.
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I blundered into writing.
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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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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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