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Ralph Ellison quotes about world

American Author March 1, 1914 – April 16, 1994

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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... Ralph Ellison
I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers. Ralph Ellison
Can it be, I thought, can it actually be? .......could he be all of them: Rine the runner and Rine the gambler and Rine the briber and Rine the lover and Rinehart the Reverend? Could he himself be both rind and heart? .....Rinehart the rounder. It was true as I was true. His world was possibility and he knew it. He was years ahead of me and I was a fool. I must have been crazy and blind. The world in which we lived was without boundaries...All boundaries down, freedom was not only the... Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison quote: "The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it."
The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it. Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison quote: "There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers."
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers. Ralph Ellison

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