Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
RALPH ELLISONAmerica is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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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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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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You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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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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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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I am nobody but myself.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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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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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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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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