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Ralph Ellison

"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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Donna Grant

"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

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Donna Grant

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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Donna Grant

"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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Donna Grant

"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."

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Donna Grant

"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so."

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Donna Grant

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

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Donna Grant

"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."

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Donna Grant

"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."

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Donna Grant

"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."

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Donna Grant

"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."

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

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Ralph Ellison
"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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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."

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Ralph Ellison
"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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Ralph Ellison
"Education is all a matter of building bridges."

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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."

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

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

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