If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
RALPH ELLISONAmerica is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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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.
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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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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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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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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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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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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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