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Ralph Ellison - From the Activity category:
Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. (Ralph Ellison)
Ralph Ellison - From the Commitment category:
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow. (Ralph Ellison)
Ralph Ellison - From the Education category:
Education is all a matter of building bridges. (Ralph Ellison)
Ralph Ellison - From the Freedom category:
When I discover who I am, I'll be free. (Ralph Ellison)
Ralph Ellison - From the Future category:
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead. (Ralph Ellison)
Ralph Ellison - From the Ideas category:
The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. (Ralph Ellison)
Ralph Ellison - From the Life category:
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. (Ralph Ellison)
Ralph Ellison - From the Music category:
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)
Ralph Ellison - From the Reality category:
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. (Ralph Ellison)
Ralph Ellison - From the Recognition category:
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)
Ralph Ellison - From the Seeing category:
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. (Ralph Ellison)
Ralph Ellison - From the Sleep category:
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers. (Ralph Ellison)
Ralph Ellison - From the Style category:
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)
Ralph Ellison - From the Understanding category:
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. (Ralph Ellison)
Ralph Ellison - From the Words category:
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. (Ralph Ellison)
Ralph Ellison - From the Writing category:
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghost-like. (Ralph Ellison)
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