Top 11 Ralph Waldo Ellison Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ralph Waldo Ellison

#1. Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

#2. Obama may be brilliant, but he's not a leader.

#3. Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

#4. I've got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I'll make it extremely hard.

#5. I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

#6. It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

#7. People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.

#8. You are born a caterpillar. If you wish to become a butterfly you must break from your shell and grow wings.

#9. I could love you, Dylan Day."
He kissed her again, open-mouthed, his hands in her hair. "I could love you too.

#10. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust him.

#11. How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.

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