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Quote by Ralph Ellison
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and

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

Other quotes by Ralph Ellison

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. – Ralph Ellison

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Fairy Tales
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The understanding of art depends finally upon ones willingness to extend ones humanity and ones knowledge of human life. – Ralph Ellison

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Knowledge
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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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communication
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American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. – Tom Hooper

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Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life. – Julianna Baggott

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relationship

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I dont think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy. – Dyan Cannon

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relationship

Ive always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether its the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabias passion to get lost in a faraway place. – Baz Luhrmann

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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. – Babe Ruth

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I tell people Im too stupid to know whats impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true. – Debi Thomas

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Its inspirational to see someone who is dying smile. – Arlen Specter

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By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. – Steven Chu

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