Quotes by Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison

…and yet I am what they think I am.

Thinking

And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.

Absurdity

Dies

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

Expression

Music

Rocks

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

Musician

Play

Style

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Bridges

Education

High School Graduation

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

Conflict

Crafts

Serious

Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

Merry Go Round

Sacrifice

Wanted

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

Beauty

Dream

Love

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

Chaos

Giving

Patterns

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.

Black History

Men

People

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Absurdity

Acceptance

Action

African American

Agony

Air

Arrows

Art

Asking

Beauty

Being Yourself

Black History

Boys

Bridges

Chaos

Confidence

Conflict

Cousin

Crafts

Crush

Danger

Definitions

Dies

Dream

Eagles

Education

Empty

Expected

Exploits

Expression

Faces

Failure

Forget

Form

Gay

Giving

Glasses

Goya

Grandfather

Harsh

Hated

Hibernation

High School Graduation

Honest

Humanity

Hurt

Ideas

Imagination

Individuality

Injustice

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Quotes by Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison

…and yet I am what they think I am.

And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.

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

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

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

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

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

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.

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