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― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“They were blind, bat blind, moving only by the echoed sounds of their own voices.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“{H}istory records the patterns of men's lives, they say: Who slept with whom and with what results; who fought and who won and who lived to lie about it afterwards. All things, it is said, are duly recorded--all things of importance, that is. But not quite, for actually it is only the known, the seen, the heard and only those events that the recorder regards as important that are set down, those lies his keepers keep their power by.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“And he’ll learn that his index and second fingers are meant for something other than playing the game of stink-finger and pulling his bow.”
― Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth

“How had I come to this? I had kept unswervingly to the path placed before me, had tried to be exactly what I was expected to be, had done exactly what I was expected to do -- yet, instead of winning the expected reward, here I was stumbling along, holding on desperately to one of my eyes in order to keep from bursting out my brain against some familiar object swerved into my path by my distorted vision.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisble Man