If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn’t care as long as they sang without dissonance.
RALPH ELLISONAmerica is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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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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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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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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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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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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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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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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We don’t all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.
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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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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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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.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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