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Ralph Ellison Quotes

If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit Picture Quote #1

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me Picture Quote #1

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own Picture Quote #1

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are Picture Quote #1

I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man Picture Quote #1

I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers Picture Quote #1

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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers Picture Quote #1

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live Picture Quote #1

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals Picture Quote #1

God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity Picture Quote #1

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled Picture Quote #1

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me Picture Quote #1

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Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why, if they follow this conformity business, they’ll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive towards colorlessness? But seriously and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain Picture Quote #1

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy Picture Quote #1

And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set Picture Quote #1

I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love Picture Quote #1

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If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit (Ralph Ellison Quotes) I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me (Ralph Ellison Quotes) And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own (Ralph Ellison Quotes) Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are (Ralph Ellison Quotes) I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man (Ralph Ellison Quotes) I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers (Ralph Ellison Quotes) I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers (Ralph Ellison Quotes) In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live (Ralph Ellison Quotes) And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals (Ralph Ellison Quotes) God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity (Ralph Ellison Quotes) The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled (Ralph Ellison Quotes) Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me (Ralph Ellison Quotes) Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you will have no tyrant states. Why, if they follow this conformity business, they’ll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive towards colorlessness? But seriously and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain (Ralph Ellison Quotes) If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy (Ralph Ellison Quotes) And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set (Ralph Ellison Quotes) I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love (Ralph Ellison Quotes)

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