I am an invisible man... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone…

I am an invisible man... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids-and I might even be said to posses a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man · 1952

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Ellison, Ralph Waldo. Invisible Man. Random House, 1952, prologue.

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