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"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."
"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
Explore more quotes by Ralph Ellison
"By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication."
"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
"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."
"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."
"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."
"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."
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