Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
RALPH ELLISONWithout 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.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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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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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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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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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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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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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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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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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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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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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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Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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