Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Quote by Ralph Ellison

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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges

Education is all a matter of building bridges

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's...

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's...

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain....

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain....

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried...

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried...

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past...

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past...

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play...

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play...

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed...

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed...

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones...

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones...

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come...

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come...

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church...

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church...

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past...

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past...

To write simply is as difficult as to be good

To write simply is as difficult as to be good

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid...

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid...

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals