"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

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Source : Invisible Man epilogue (1952)

Ralph Ellison

#Fate Quotes #America Quotes #Woven Quotes

“When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.”
“Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them”
“I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.”
“One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.”
“For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”

Source : "Edward Snowden says his mission is accomplished". www.telegraph.co.uk. December 24, 2013.
“O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!”
“Suicide is not a blot on anyoneâ€™s name; it is a tragedy”
“It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth”

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