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Men Quotes by Ralph Ellison
- The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human…
- All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is…
- Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides…
- I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie…
- I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said…
- 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…
- For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action,…
- 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…
- Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
- 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,…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle