If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
RALPH ELLISONPower, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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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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That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn’t care as long as they sang without dissonance.
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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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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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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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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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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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