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

Topics: Power Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone,...

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone,...

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...

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,...

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...

Sometimes, you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free...

Sometimes, you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free...

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Dont you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you cant be...

Dont you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you cant be...