"If the word has the potency to revive……" — Ralph Ellison
"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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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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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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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might…
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More Bind Quotes
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one of 325 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
— Robert Burton
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
— Luc de Clapiers
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If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the…
— Charles Dickens
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
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Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
— Hermann Bondi
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All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His…
— Watchman Nee
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Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we…
— James A. Baldwin
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
— Gregory Bateson
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