The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
RALPH ELLISONI 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.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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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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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
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Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
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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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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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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
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It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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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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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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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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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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