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Word Quotes by Ralph Ellison
- If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
- Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
- Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
- 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,…
- If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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