Ralph Ellison Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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