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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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The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
— Jimmy Carter
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Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country,…
— Ronald Reagan
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There has never been nationhood without falsehood.
— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
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In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as…
— Shimon Peres
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No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.
— Unknown Author
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Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it…
— Strobe Talbott
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We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions…
— Wilma Scott Heide
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It is in the American interest to put an end to Nationhood. That is the goal in global government. America must get…
— Walt Whitman Rostow
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Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the…
— John Henrik Clarke
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National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas…
— Frantz Fanon
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Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic,…
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