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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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There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
— Drew Barrymore
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I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents…
— Jenna Bush
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Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
— Tom Clancy
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I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.
— Sparky Anderson
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
— Bel Kaufman
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It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and…
— John Wayne
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Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.
— Robert Byrd
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If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the…
— Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass…
— Clay Aiken
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I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car…
— Mia Sara
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