"Power doesn't have to show off. Power is……" — Ralph Ellison
"Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it."
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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
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After a hard day scrambling to find your way around in the world, it's assuring to come home to a…
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The enduring responsibility of the United States Air Force is to provide strategic deterrence for the Nation and fly, fight…
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Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before…
— Ronald Reagan
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What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to…
— Mel Gibson
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As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I…
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that…
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Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other…
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For a man who is lost, the three greatest dangers in order of importance, are Fear, Cold, and Hunger. He…
— Ernest Thompson Seton
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— Bruce R. McConkie
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Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and…
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