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.

Quote by Ralph Ellison

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Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

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 end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

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...

Education is all a matter of building bridges

Education is all a matter of building bridges

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you? A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you? A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -...

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -...

By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings...

By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings...