Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
RALPH ELLISON
Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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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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Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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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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It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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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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Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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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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My hole is warm and full of light.
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We don’t all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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