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Ralph Ellison Quotes: When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
         

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.


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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.



Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.



Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.



Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.



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.

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.



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.

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 not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.



What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?



God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.



There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.





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There is the sky, which is all men's together.



Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions...that get us to the right answer.

Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions...that get us to the right answer.



Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.



The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another.

The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another.



Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.



Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.




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