Quote by Ralph Ellison
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of

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

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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

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I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. – Ralph Ellison

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Black History
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If listeners arent carried away to Heaven, Im failing. – La Monte Young

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But picketing – picketing for or against something, and handing out literature – these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication. – Tony Conrad

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Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication. – Sylvia Sidney

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The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. – Alva Myrdal

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Every mile is two in winter. – George Herbert

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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. – Winston Churchill

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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind. – Charles Baudelaire

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The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and its really all about them. – Robbie Coltrane

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