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Ralph Ellison Quotes & Sayings

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29 entries tagged including 12 subtopics.
Last updated Dec 2023

Ralph Ellison Topics

Life
Education
Power
Jazz
Academic
Relatives
Slavery
Grandparents
Philosophy
Writing
Being Yourself

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All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.

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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

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When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

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Philosophy quotes

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

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Philosophy quotes

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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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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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

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Grandparents quotes

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

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Relatives quotes

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

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