We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough. - Ralph Ellison

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As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

Ralph Ellison

We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.

Looks, Morning, Museums, Sun

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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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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.

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If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.

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I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.

Except, Glasses, Invisible, Life, Mirrors, Surroundings

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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.

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