Ralph Ellison Quotes - Page 4

• For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.

  Ralph Ellison

  Country, Attitude, Hard Work

  Ralph Ellison (1980). “Invisible man”, Vintage

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• Toda novela seria es, más allá de sus preocupaciones temáticas inmediatas, una discusión sobre la artesanía, una conquista de la forma, un conflicto con sus dificultades y una búsqueda de su felicidad y belleza.

  Ralph Ellison

  Crafts, Serious, Conflict

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• I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

  Ralph Ellison

  Unhappy, Needs, Territory

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.592, Vintage

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

  Ralph Ellison

  Preparation, Hibernation, Definitions

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.38, Vintage

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• No a todos nos gusta Shakespeare por igual, ni siquiera 'Caperucita Roja'. La comprensión del arte depende finalmente de la voluntad de cada uno de ampliar su humanidad y su conocimiento de la vida humana.

  Ralph Ellison

  Art, Understanding, Humanity

  Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham, Amritjit Singh (1995). “Conversations with Ralph Ellison”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance.

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  Song, Voice, Long

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.270, Vintage

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• In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

  Ralph Ellison

  Noise, Dies

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.227, Modern Library

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• And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.

  Ralph Ellison

  Sight, Mind, Patterns

  Ralph Ellison (1952). “Invisible Man”

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• Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.

  Ralph Ellison

  Giving, Patterns, Chaos

  Ralph Ellison (1952). “Invisible Man”

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• 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.

  Ralph Ellison

  Communication, Writing, Identity

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.176, Vintage

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• My hole is warm and full of light.

  Ralph Ellison

  Light, Holes, Warm

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.31, Vintage

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• All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

  Ralph Ellison

  Minorities, Individual, Certain

  1955 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• ...and yet I am what they think I am.

  Ralph Ellison

  Pensar

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.390, Vintage

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• I blundered into writing.

  Ralph Ellison

  Escribir

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.14, Vintage

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• When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life Is, Theatrical, American Life

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.53, Vintage

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• Muchos de los ritos de paso, esos rituales de crecimiento que se encuentran en nuestra sociedad, tienen forma de asuntos cómicos, de bromas prácticas, que ignoramos en la creencia de que no poseen un significado más profundo. Sin embargo, es precisamente por ser considerados sin importancia por lo que cobran importancia. Porque en ellos ritualizamos y dramatizamos actitudes que contradicen y a menudo avergüenzan los valores sagrados que proclamamos a través de nuestras solemnes ceremonias y rituales de nación.

  Ralph Ellison

  Growing Up, Attitude, Our Society

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• But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.

  Ralph Ellison

  Soñar, Real, Creer

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• Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

  Ralph Ellison

  Music, Rocks, Expression

  "Some Questions and Some Answers", 1958.

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• I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable.

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  Business, Confusing, Saws

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.193, Vintage

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• Soy un hombre invisible. No, no soy un fantasma como los que atormentaban a Edgar Allan Poe; tampoco soy uno de los ectoplasmas de las películas de Hollywood.

  Ralph Ellison

  Men, Hollywood, Invisible

  1952 Invisible Man, prologue.

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