The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.Ralph Ellisonquoteswithmeaning.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
“I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.”Ralph EllisonHumor
“But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.”
“And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that is the yearning of men for a flag: for a unity that cannot be compromised, that cannot be bought; that is conscious of itself, of its strength, that is militant.”Ralph EllisonHope
“God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.”Ralph EllisonGod
“a delegate shout out from the floor: “Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes, we want to join with the CIO! We cannot stop for controversy!” And there in the faces of my people I saw strength. There with the whites in the audience I saw the positive forces of civilization and the best guarantee of America’s future.”Ralph EllisonHope