Ralph Ellison Quotes

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

Ralph Ellison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CommunicationYourselfIdentityMe

In the long term, Greece is an important market for us.

Jochen Zeitz

LongImportantLong TermUsMarket

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Jesse Jackson

ConstitutionWhiteVoteRightOnly

Perhaps all of us have come to rely too deeply on machinery and software to be our allies without wondering about the cost: the way technology doesn't fix problems without creating new ones.

Jenna Wortham

TechnologyProblemsCreatingNewWay

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

John Henrik Clarke

MotherRelationshipChildPeople

If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame.

Michael Ignatieff

PoliticsPeopleSucceedBadGoOnly

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

Jean Reno

LovePeopleOldYearsAdvantageHad

I once took the key off my girlfriend's key ring so that I could surprise her when she got home. So I did this whole romantic setup in our bedroom with flowers and rose petals. She was so mad when she got home, but then when she walked in, she was so surprised.

Trey Songz

HomeRomanticFlowersRoseKeyMad

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

Robert Dale Owen

FreedomPowerMomentMenRaceAct

I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.

Robbie Coltrane

FutureKnowYoungTwoGotKids

I think 'Chef' is about somebody who's in the middle of his life, and he's kind of lost his passion and his voice, so he seeks out some refinement and redemption.

Jon Favreau

LifePassionChefVoiceThinkLost

Sometimes when I pose for pictures, people say it's impossible that I have a flat stomach without working out like crazy and having a personal trainer, and sometimes they get mad at me, and I find that hard because I think there's a lot of women who have the same thing happening to them because they lived a healthy, active lifestyle.

Doutzen Kroes

WomenPeopleMeCrazyImpossible

Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.

Bradley A. Smith

IndependentMisunderstoodBeenKnown

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