"To hell with being ashamed of what you…" — Ralph Ellison
"To hell with being ashamed of what you liked."
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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 Ashamed Quotes
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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is…
— Richard Bach
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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough.…
— Mary J. Blige
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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer…
— John Abbott
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It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.
— Emily Blunt
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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to…
— Jacob Bronowski
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When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be…
— Tony Campolo
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
— Noam Chomsky
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take…
— Louie Anderson
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