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Letter "R" » Ralph Ellison Quotes
«The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
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Writing
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ghostlike, hover, hovered, hovers, plunged, plunges, plunging, Shadow of the, The Shadow
«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.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
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Power
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assuring, confident, justifying, self-assured, show off, starting, stopping, warming
«Education is all a matter of building bridges»
«If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.»
«Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
«I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
«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.»
«When I discover who I am, I'll be free.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
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Philosophy
«America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
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America and Americans
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description, prophecy, recognise, strands, woven
«The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.»
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