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

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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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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I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didnt want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it. – Evan Glodell

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For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. – Warren Beatty

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As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, its fine. – Gerhard Schroder

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The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and whats it all about. – David Attenborough

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You can ask me pretty much anything. Therell be things Ill go, That feels a little too personal. But most things I dont have a fear of being asked about. – Nicole Kidman

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Its not like I dont have my own wants and dreams anymore – its just that the kids come first. Its primal. – Angie Harmon

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