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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.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
brutalization, church music, commercial, contemporary, cultural, loot, looting, Negro, obscene, Rock and roll music, rock music
«I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
| About:
Grandparents,
Slavery
| Keywords:
at one time, grandparent, grandparents, one time
«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.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
«The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
«Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
«Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
«Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
«The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
«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.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
«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.»
Author: Ralph Ellison