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Possibility Quotes by Ralph Ellison
- 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,…
- The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.
- So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action,…
- God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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