Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to … - Ralph Ellison

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I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.

Ralph Ellison

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.

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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.

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