"Having tried to give pattern to the chaos……" — Ralph Ellison
"Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge."
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83 Quotes by Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison has 83 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of…
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others…
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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…
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison…
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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…
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon…
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to…
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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…
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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you…
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More Certainties Quotes
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner…
— Jonathan Carroll
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
— Bela Lugosi
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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin…
— Salman Rushdie
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
— Charles William Eliot
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I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to…
— Bridget Riley
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I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your…
— Unknown Author
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that…
— James Dobson
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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted…
— Fernando Pessoa
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When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom,…
— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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