Ralph Ellison Quotes

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.

Ralph Ellison

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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.

Randall Park
- Audience
- Kid
- Against
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

Natalia Tena
- Music
- Words
- Same
As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

Famke Janssen
- Years
- New
- New York
A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

Walter Cronkite
- Good
- Politics
- Journalism
I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

Laila Ali
- Stop
- Athlete
- Gym
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence