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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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Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on…
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I have done the merry-go-round and I have ridden the roller-coaster. I have made my choice. I choose the roller-coaster. There is…
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Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have…
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In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here…
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You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I…
— Lowell Ganz
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When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
— Neil Diamond
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It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.
— Julie Andrews
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The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive…
— Chris Hedges
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