America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
RALPH ELLISONMy hole is warm and full of light.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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I am nobody but myself.
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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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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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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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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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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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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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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If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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I blundered into writing.
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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