Ralph Ellison

Born :1 March 1914

Tribute :16 April 1994

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Ralph Ellison born on 1st March 1914, and passed away on 16th April 1994, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire generations. Over the past 80 years, we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 19 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in american and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of Ralph Ellison

Timeless words and powerful thoughts from Ralph Ellison - discover the wisdom, inspiration, and voice behind the quotes that continue to resonate

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

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.

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

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

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

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.

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.

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

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

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.

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

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

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.