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Ralph Ellison Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 1, 1914 - April 16, 1994

Topics

Relationship Yourself People Choose

My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend.

John Marshall

Education Friend Father I Am Youth

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time; to say 'high Anglo-Catholic' would be a real English understatement.

John Hurt

Time School Say First Real High

One of the rules I've learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the best way to not have a great outcome.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Great Best Think Rules Investment

I don't want to coach too far into my 60s. By then, I'll be playing golf four or five times a week.

Steve Spurrier

Golf Week Want Coach Playing Four

It's rubbish to say that just because it's organic, it's better. There's good organic, and there's bad organic. We should all be thinking about taste, not some stamp on the package.

Tom Parker Bowles

Good Thinking Better Bad Say Taste

I will be 60 or 70 years old still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair all coiffed.

Johnny Weir

Hair Will Old Years Blazer Still

Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know?

Dennis Quaid

America You Wall Know Street Come

Songs say what our emotions can't. I love that about music.

Delilah

Love Music Emotions Say Songs Our

I started playing basketball when I was about three years old. After that, everything else just came naturally. I had older cousins that used to let me hang with them, so I got my toughness from them.

Brandon Jennings

Me Basketball Three Toughness Old

I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.

Bob Crosby

Responsibility Brother Me Think His

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Susan B. Anthony

Children Money People Rich Church

Do you know how hard it is to play a character where you're always in heels? Oh, my goodness!

Serinda Swan

Character You Play Goodness Know