Ralph Ellison citáty a výroky
Ralph Ellison: Citáty anglicky
Shadow and Act (New York: Random House, 1964), Introduction, p. xix; in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 56.
“And yet I am what they think I am.”
Zdroj: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 17.
“The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.”
"The Little Man at Chehaw Station" (1978), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 503.
“…to hell with being ashamed of what you liked.”
Zdroj: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 13.
"The Essential Ellison", interview by Ishmael Reed in Y'Bird 1, no. 1 (1978): 130-59.
"Brave Words for a Startling Occasion" (1953), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 154.
"Address to the Harvard College Alumni, Class of 1949" (1974), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 429.
"The Art of Fiction: An Interview" (The Paris Review, Spring 1955), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 212.
“…there's always an element of crime in freedom.”
Zdroj: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 7.
“The truth is the light and light is the truth.”
Prologue.
Invisible Man (1952)
"The Golden Age, Time Past" (1959), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 239.
Zdroj: Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010), pp. 680-1.
"What These Children Are Like" (1963), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 555.
Zdroj: Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010), p. 418.
"Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity" (1953), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 81.
"Richard Wright's Blues" (1945), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 133.
"Some Questions and Some Answers" (1958), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 298.
"The Art of Fiction: An Interview" (The Paris Review, Spring 1955), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 218.
“Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway?—diversity is the word.”
Epilogue.
Invisible Man (1952)
"The Art of Fiction: An Interview" (The Paris Review, Spring 1955), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 217.
"Brave Words for a Startling Occasion" (1953), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 153.
“Words are everything and don't you forget it, ever.”
Zdroj: Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010), p. 251.
