Quotes by : Ralph Ellison

Deep at the dark bottom of the melting pot, where the private is public and the public private, where....

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard....

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

The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized....

a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They....

So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things.....

I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was....

I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly....

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.