Rampersad V Quotes & Sayings

It's insane, but no more insane than Japan shutting down its entire nuclear reactor fleet in the middle of a heat wave because an extreme tsunami washed over one plant, or the USA invading a noninvolved Middle Eastern nation because a gang of crazies from somewhere else knocked down two skyscrapers. In a sufficiently large crisis, sane and measured responses go out the window. But sanity — Charles Stross

You don't have to call me Livvie if you don't want to, Caleb. To be honest, it's kinda scaring me. You're scaring me — C.J. Roberts

A willingness to be pleased requires modesty and even innocence
easy to deride as mawkish and sentimental. — Gretchen Rubin

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival. — Ellen Hopkins

Racial inequality is a big problem. — Hillary Clinton

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

Can it be chat modesty may more betray
Our sense than woman's lightness? — William Shakespeare

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

Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty — Louisa May Alcott

You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools. — Lee Kuan Yew

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

And then they were at Tristran's old home, where his sister waited for him, and there was a steaming breakfast on the stove and on the table, prepared for him, lovingly, by the woman he had always believed to be his mother. — Neil Gaiman

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. — Errol Morris

Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant, and live. — William Shakespeare