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.
RALPH ELLISONWho knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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I blundered into writing.
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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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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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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 I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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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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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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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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