Ralph Ellison Quotes

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ralph Ellison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

Joe Dante

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You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

John C. Reilly

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I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when 'Oklahoma!' was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called 'Away We Go,' they added a new song called 'Oklahoma!' I don't think that could happen today. It's almost impossible to change musicals on the go now.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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As you all know, Prince is no longer with us. It is extremely difficult for me, and that is why I have chosen not to discuss it.

Mayte Garcia

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I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

Robert Plant

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When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I like going after work back to Brooklyn because it is so much more relaxed and chill.

Anna Ewers

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Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

Jared Diamond

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What's so important with fashion imagery and with imagery in general is that it ultimately evokes an emotion.

Jonathan Anderson

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I married the man of my dreams in 1998.

Cindy Margolis

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'First Light' has gotten a reputation as a kind of cult classic about science. I never really intended it to be read as a science book, but books, like children, have a way of choosing their own friends.

Richard Preston

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What I love to do is the policy. The politics, I'm brand-new at.

James Lankford

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