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.
RALPH ELLISONPerhaps 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.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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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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the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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I am nobody but myself.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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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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I blundered into writing.
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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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