There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
RALPH ELLISONAnd my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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I blundered into writing.
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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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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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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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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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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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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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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 truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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