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Been Quotes by Ralph Ellison
- I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And…
- 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:…
- I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
- It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to…
- I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though…
- I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's…
- Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
- 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…
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle