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Ralph Ellison

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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Awesome Day Dancer Enjoy Feel Musician Play Scene Style
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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Affection Afraid Family Grandmother Grandparent Love Slave
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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Coveive Live Lose Mind Pattern Plan Sight
The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Discover Found Miracle Moral Possibility Shine World
The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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Beautiful Exploit Explore Life Meaning Things To Do
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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Experience Grandfather Mind Side Start Trying Young
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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Awake Dream Invisible Remember Sleep Walk World
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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Contradictory Freedom Long Shout Sing Song Unison Voice
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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Act Individual Life Men Minor Minority Novel Universal
Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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Hope Man Picture Soaring Vulture
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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Adult Certain Illegal Individual Minorities Permission Prohibited
Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
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Butterfly Friend Happy Journey Long Love Order Plan Travel
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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Imagination Implement Innovation Integrative Judge Plan Solution Task
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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Act Frequency Knowledge Knows Lower Motivation Speak
Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form…without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death…the truth is the light and light is the truth.
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Confirm Death Giving Life Light Reality Truth
I am nobody but myself.
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Motivation Myself Nobody One Liner Sefl Love Task

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