“ Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ”
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“ Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ”
- Ralph Ellison- Copy
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“ Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ”
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“ I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied ”
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“ God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. ”
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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. ”
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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. ”
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“ Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. ”
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“ 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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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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. ”
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“ It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow. ”
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“ If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. ”
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“ Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ”
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“ Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ”
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“ Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ”
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“ The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. ”
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“ The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. ”
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“ Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality — that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false face, and so on until it surrenders its insight, its truth. ”
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“ Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. ”
- Ralph Ellison- Copy
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“ Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. ”
- Ralph Ellison- Copy
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“ Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality — that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false face, and so on until it surrenders its insight, its truth. ”
- Ralph Ellison- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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