The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
RALPH ELLISONWithout the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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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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Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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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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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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I’m not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That’s how you make the new — by putting something else with what you’ve got. And I’m unashamedly an American integrationist.
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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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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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