"Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can……" — Ralph Ellison
"Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove."
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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 Dove Quotes
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There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory…
— Andrew Jackson
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and…
— Tommy Lasorda
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My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story.…
— Unknown Author
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Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of…
— Paul of the Cross
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"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Then he releases a dove and dies while sitting in a rain storm
— Rutger Hauer
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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition,…
— Joseph Addison
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The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.
— Nikita Khrushchev
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Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
— John Dryden
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The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.
— Michael Drayton
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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence…
— Martina McBride
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