I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

Quote by Ralph Ellison

Topics: Grandparents Quotes, Slavery Quotes

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...

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and...

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and...

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

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

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of...

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of...

Education is all a matter of building bridges

Education is all a matter of building bridges

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...

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also...

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also...

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...

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

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...

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

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

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

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...

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity...

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity...

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...

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....

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

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

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...

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists,...

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists,...