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thehopefulquotes · 3 days

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

Ralph Ellison

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macrolit · 9 months

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stay-close · 3 months

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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

Ralph Ellison

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thoughtkick · 2 months

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

Ralph Ellison

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infpisme · 4 months

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#ralph ellison #life struggles #fighting battles #life quotes #please understand

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chellilonaaphra · 1 year

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thechanelmuse · 2 years

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Toni Morrison was 39 when she published her first book, The Bluest Eye. Zora Neale Hurston was 43. Maya Angelou was 41. Ralph Ellison was 39.

August Wilson was 34 when he wrote his first play, Jitney.

It's never too late to start...or start again.

#toni morrison #zora neale hurston #maya angelou #ralph ellison #august wilson

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perfectquote · 6 months

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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

Ralph Ellison

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resqectable · 1 month

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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

Ralph Ellison

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quotemadness · 1 year

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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

Ralph Ellison

#Ralph Ellison #quotes #quote #lit #literature

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quotefeeling · 1 year

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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

Ralph Ellison

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surqrised · 3 months

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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

Ralph Ellison

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iseetheworldinmetaphor · 8 months

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"You don't write for prizes. You write because this is the way you are most alive, the way you feel you can be most effective in confronting life and society —and yourself even. The imagination sometimes takes off, takes off just like, say, a jazz musician who is on a flight of improvisation. So I let it go where it wants to go and then I pare it down. It's better to have it all down than to have missed an opportunity of writing yourself into something startling and interesting."

—Ralph Ellison

Your writing is writing you.

#writing #screenwriting #ralph ellison #quotes on writing #writing quotes

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thoughtkick · 7 months

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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

Ralph Ellison

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soracities · 1 year

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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

#q #lit #quotes #ralph ellison #invisible man #echoes of the other #personal #m #x

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quotespile · 4 months

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Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

#literature #quotes #Ralph Ellison #Invisible Man #quote #books #lit

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