Quote by Ralph Ellison
The understanding of art depends finally upon ones willingness to

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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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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relationship
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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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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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Even though Im a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so Im looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it. – Gary Vaynerchuk

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Knowledge

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. – Seth Godin

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Knowledge

Im one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around. – Jennie Garth

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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. – Max Planck

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Knowledge

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Im really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. – John Templeton

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After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers. – George W. Bush

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legal

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like Ive come full circle and my hearts finally in the right place. – Scott Stapp

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My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. – Michael J. Fox

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