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Ralph Ellison has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and…
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment…
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Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural…
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be…
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the…
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find…
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point…
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We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to…
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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it,…
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Nature is our chapel.
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I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about…
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And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained;…
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You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there?…
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The mystique and the romance of a big wedding are lost on me. I don't think that I could ever do something…
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On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years…
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