When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
RALPH ELLISON
Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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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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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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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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I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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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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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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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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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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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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