"It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although……" — Ralph Ellison
"It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves."
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Ralph Ellison
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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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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.…
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison…
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I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the…
— John Cheever
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.
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The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.
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Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.
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It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock.…
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It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces…
— Leo Tolstoy
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To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to…
— Mickey Rourke
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Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us…
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