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I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place

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Ralph Ellison

Power, for the writer. . . . lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

Complexity, Humanity, Littles, Lying, Reveal, Writer
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Commitment, Committed, Deep, Grow, Grows

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Controlled, Face, Failure, Inspiring, Life, Play

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Confidence, Inspirational, Know, Power, Show

If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.

Cling, Drop, Real, Singing, Society, Teaching

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.

Except, Glasses, Invisible, Life, Mirrors, Surroundings
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