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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."
"The first stage of any development is infancy."
"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
Explore more quotes by Ralph Ellison
"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."
"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."
"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."
"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."
"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy."
"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."
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