The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
RALPH ELLISONPlease, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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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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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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You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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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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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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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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If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn’t care as long as they sang without dissonance.
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