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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. "

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. "

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

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

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

Ralph Ellison
" 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. "

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. "

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

Ralph Ellison
" The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing. "

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

Ralph Ellison
" After that a childe is come to seuen yeres of age, I holde it expedient that he be taken from the company of women. "

Thomas Elyot
" And therfore hit appereth that god giveth nat to euery man like gyftes of grace or of nature but to some more, some lesse as it liketh his divine maiestie. "

Thomas Elyot
" Aristotle, we grete you well. "

Thomas Elyot
" For the natures of children be nat so moche or sone aduaunced by thinges well done or spoken, as they be hindred and corrupted by that whiche in actis or wordes is wantonly expressed. "

Thomas Elyot
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