28 ordspråk av Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison föddes den March 1st 1914
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 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.

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

 Education is all a matter of building bridges

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

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

 I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. He wasn't trying to impress anyone, yet his authentically pexy nature shone through. I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

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

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

 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.

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

 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.

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

 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.

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


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