Rampersad Quotes & Sayings

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much. — Susan Sontag

I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly. — Carl Honore

The celebration of Lent, in the context of the Year of Faith, offers us a valuable opportunity to meditate on the relationship between faith and charity: between believing in God - the God of Jesus Christ - and love, which is the fruit of the Holy Spirit and which guides us on the path of devotion to God and others. — Pope Benedict XVI

Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is the most powerful and profound treatment of Ellison's undeniable artistic genius, deep personal flaws, and controversial political evolution. And he reveals an Ellison unbeknownst to all of us. From now on, all serious scholarship on Ellison must begin with Rampersad's instant and inimitable classic in literary biography. — Cornel West

Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography. — Henry Louis Gates

The Cavelries hear and their short and furrie — James A. Owen

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery. — Robin Sharma

Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the same universe of creative genius. Like Ellison's work, Rampersad's text wrestles eloquently with difficult truths about race, politics, and American life. — Michael Eric Dyson

I'm a yes person. I'm too concerned with trying to make too many people happy. — Jorja Fox

The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ? — Robin Williams

Arnold Rampersad is a really good person. A really good person. As a matter of fact, he came to Stanford when I was Provost. — Condoleezza Rice

I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head. — Virginia Woolf

When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't. — Rick Astley

Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars — Leonard Cohen

I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing. — Edith Konecky