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Ralph Ellison

"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 condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read."

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"The last good time always comes."

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"I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship."

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"I don't like him. He makes me laugh. It'll wrinkle my face."

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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

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"Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire."

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"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."

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"Life is a wave of love in the ocean of time."

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"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."
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"Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action."
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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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"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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"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."
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"Education is all a matter of building bridges."
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"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."
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"Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked."
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"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
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"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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