So now they're shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to hear. Not the truth, but some lie that will protect them from the truth
Ralph EllisonTag: truth lie juneteenth
A start is a start, and 'is' is 'is' not 'was'.
Ralph EllisonTag: is
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
Ralph EllisonIt's the little things that find us out, the little things we refuse to do in order to avoid doing the big things that can save us.
Ralph EllisonTag: juneteenth
Nothing ever stops; it divides and multiplies, and I guess sometimes it gets ground down superfine, but it doesn't just blow away.
Ralph EllisonMaybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.
Ralph EllisonTag: truth reality perspective fact
All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.
Ralph EllisonEverywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
Ralph EllisonTag: sacrifice
Boo'ful," she said, "life could be so diff'rent—"
"But it never is," I said.
Tag: life
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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