I am nobody but myself.
RALPH ELLISONPower, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
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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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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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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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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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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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I blundered into writing.
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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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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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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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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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