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Ralph Ellison Quotes
America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
Education is all a matter of building bridges. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
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. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
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. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
The understanding of art depends finally upon ones willingness to extend ones humanity and ones knowledge of human life. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
When I discover who I am, Ill be free. - Ralph Ellison Quotes
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