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> [Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/hibernation-is-a-covert-preparation-for-a-more-overt-action/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

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> [Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/please-a-definition-a-hibernation-is-a-covert-preparation-for-a-more/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

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## More by Ralph Ellison

> [“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/civil-wars-are-the-best-wars-for-the-writer-because-they-have-a-way/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [“But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/but-what-a-feeling-can-come-over-a-man-just-from-seeing-the-things-he/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/i-suspect-that-all-the-agony-that-goes-into-writing-is-borne/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/everywhere-i-ve-turned-somebody-has-wanted-to-sacrifice-me-for-my-own/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [Power, for the writer…lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/power-for-the-writer-lies-in-his-ability-to-reveal-if-only-a-little/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [...and yet I am what they think I am.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/and-yet-i-am-what-they-think-i-am/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/and-while-the-ice-was-melting-to-form-a-flood-in-which-i-threatened/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [“Do they come to bury the others or to be entombed to give life or to receive it?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/do-they-come-to-bury-the-others-or-to-be-entombed-to-give-life-or-to/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [“They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/they-could-laugh-at-him-but-they-couldn-t-ignore-him/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/commercial-rock-n-roll-music-is-a-brutalization-of-the-stream-of/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [“All dreamers and sleepwalkers must pay the price, and even the invisible victim is responsible for the fate of all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/all-dreamers-and-sleepwalkers-must-pay-the-price-and-even-the/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [“Those two spots are among the darkest of our whole civilization--pardon me, our whole culture (an important distinction, I've heard)--which might sound like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/those-two-spots-are-among-the-darkest-of-our-whole-civilization/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [“Above the decorous walking around me, sounds of footsteps leaving the verandas of far-flung buildings and moving toward the walks and over the walks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/above-the-decorous-walking-around-me-sounds-of-footsteps-leaving-the/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/and-my-problem-was-that-i-always-tried-to-go-in-everyone-s-way-but-my/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

> [I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-ellison/i-am-one-of-the-most-irresponsible-beings-that-ever-lived/)

[Ralph Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-ellison/)

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