All Ralph Ellison Quotes
- 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. Assuring
- 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… Benefited
- Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why,… All
- Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. Been
- Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. Action
- If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. Blind
- The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. Art
- All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers… Accepted