Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
RALPH ELLISONWithout the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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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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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.
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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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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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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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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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