Black Ball By Ralph Ellison Quotes

#1. I like breaking the rules.

Lexa Doig

#2. Fuck you, said Fear to Reason.

David Mitchell

#3. There is a dramatic conflict in what is commonly called the human sciences. Should we postulate a typical human reality and describe its psychic modalities, taking into account only the imperfections, or should we not rather make a constant, solid endeavor to understand man in an everchanging light?

Frantz Fanon

#4. When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.

Maxwell Maltz

#5. I thought it was really funny that half the people I autographed things for said, 'Autograph the back of my phone.' I was like, 'What? Really? Seriously?' They didn't have anything else.

Willow Shields

#6. Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

W. H. Auden

#7. Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all meditation is, no matter what tradition or particular technique is used.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#8. Money almost always ends up disappointing.
Buying things to give lasing satisfaction is an illusion. Money can't buy happiness. The people with the most money are often times the MOST miserable people.

Lisa Bedrick

#9. For a man of action and few words, the ones he did say were quite lovely.

Melanie Dickerson

#10. Put all our pride away, always find a gentle word to say, you know we shouldn't be full of ourselves when we should be full of humility .

Dawud Wharnsby Ali

#11. Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

King Vidor

#12. No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

Napoleon Hill

#13. If people want to see you, they'll find you. If they don't see you on TV, they'll find you on the Internet.

Jimmy Fallon

#14. The lumpiness of 'The Good Lie's progression - from infancy to adulthood, and from ethnic horror to gentle social comedy to a heroic gift of freedom - proclaims the film's respect for facts and truths that can't be squeezed into a smooth narrative.

Richard Corliss