Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Ralph Ellison quotes, Ralph Ellison sayings, and Ralph Ellison proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.Ralph Ellison
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.Ralph Ellison
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When I discover who I am, I'll be free.Ralph Ellison
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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.Ralph Ellison
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.Ralph Ellison
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The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.Ralph Ellison
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.Ralph Ellison
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.Ralph Ellison
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The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.Ralph Ellison
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The world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.Ralph Ellison
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.Ralph Ellison
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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.Ralph Ellison
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That... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerangRalph Ellison
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. Ralph Ellison
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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.Ralph Ellison
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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.Ralph Ellison
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What and how much has I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do? What a waste, what a senseless waste.Ralph Ellison
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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.Ralph Ellison
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A lot of living is done in the imagination.Ralph Ellison
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I'm not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed.Ralph Ellison
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.Ralph Ellison