I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
RALPH ELLISONWe look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
More Ralph Ellison Quotes
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
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Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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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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Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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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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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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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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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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