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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Ralph Ellison

I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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Ditch Guilt Hurt Invisibility Pain Sorror
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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Awesome Day Dancer Enjoy Feel Musician Play Scene Style
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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Good Time Identity Memories Memory Odds Punctual Remember
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Change Commitment Committed Deep Grow Grows
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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Ancestor Emotion Family People Relationship
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.
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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Beautiful Exploit Explore Life Meaning Things To Do
I am nobody but myself.
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Motivation Myself Nobody One Liner Sefl Love Task
In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Detached Explore Journey Memories Order Travel
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Black History Fame Fiber Invisible Life Luck Men People Substance
When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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Available Discover Inspirational Inspiring Life One Liner
And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
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Coveive Live Lose Mind Pattern Plan Sight
I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?
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Attempt Denial Excuse Invisibility Invisible Irresponsible Lazy Way
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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Affair Beauty Dream Feel Love Price Relation Task
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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Act Frequency Knowledge Knows Lower Motivation Speak
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Hobby Myself Past Require Shadow Skill Value Writing

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