“For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.” “Some things are just too unjust for words, and too ambiguous for either speech or ideas.” Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.” “Play the game, but don’t believe in it-that much you owe yourself…Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. “I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place whether I am witnessing a revelation or a more efficient blinding.” “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?” When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination-indeed, everything and anything except me.” Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in a circus sideshow, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. “I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids-and I might even be said to possess a mind. ![]() Here are just a few of the many Invisible Man quotes I will be coming back to for quite some time. ![]() It was published in 1952 and remains extremely and sadly relevant when considering race in a society that still renders many of its people “invisible.” This was my first time reading it and I was captivated from Ralph Ellison‘s introduction (this is one book where you absolutely should not skip the intro!) all the way to its conclusion. Invisible Man was one of the books that I saw come up a lot after the 2016 election, along with The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984.
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