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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.

Ralph Ellison

God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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Art Bless God Identity Moksha Pray Shadow Truth
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
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.
RALPH ELLISON

Confirm Death Giving Life Light Reality Truth
America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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Copy Exact Recognize Same Strand Unchanged Woven
Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
RALPH ELLISON

Ability Humanity Little Lying Power Reveal Writer
And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
RALPH ELLISON

Fail Fear Issue Loose My Own Problem Try Way
My hole is warm and full of light.
RALPH ELLISON

Holes Life Light One Liner Positive Warm Women
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.
RALPH ELLISON

Emotion Fairy Stories Faith Fiction Heart Leaving Love Loyal Reality Science
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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Art Depend Humanity Understanding Will
When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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Act American Life Life Positive Rules Theatrical
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Ahead Beginning End Love Lying Motivation Support
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Dangerous Few Permission Prohibited Sleepwaker World
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.
RALPH ELLISON
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
RALPH ELLISON

Conflict Crafts Discuss Immediate Novel Occupation Serious
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
RALPH ELLISON

Caring Cop Gun Poet Thought Trigger Word
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
RALPH ELLISON

Act Frequency Knowledge Knows Lower Motivation Speak

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