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

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

American Author

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 Quotes

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.

American Author People

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

American Author Fiction

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

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

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

American Author

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. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

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.

American Author Fiction

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

American Author Defeat

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 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.

Power

Education is all a matter of building bridges - Ralph Ellison Quotes

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. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

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

American Author Power

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

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

American Author Blindness

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

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

American Author People

When I discover who I am, I'll be free. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

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

American Author 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. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

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.

America American Author

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. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

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.

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. Or, as Emerson insisted, the development of consciousness, consciousness, consciousness. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. Or, as Emerson insisted, the development of consciousness, consciousness, consciousness.

Ideas

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

American Author Beginning

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Action American Author

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

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

American Author Art

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

American Author Identity

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

American Author Jazz

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

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

American Author

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 Quotes

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.

Man

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist. - Ralph Ellison Quotes

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.

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