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I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

Ralph Ellison

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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Faces Harsh Injustice Reveal Seen Show Visible
America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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Copy Exact Recognize Same Strand Unchanged Woven
My hole is warm and full of light.
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Holes Life Light One Liner Positive Warm Women
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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Hate Honest Life Satisfied Success Try Work
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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Being Yourself Ego Expectation Life Love Respect Self Self Esteem
In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Choice Day Desperate Live Music
I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Awake Dream Invisible Remember Sleep Walk World
I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. 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?
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Attempt Denial Excuse Invisibility Invisible Irresponsible Lazy Way
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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Awesome Day Dancer Enjoy Feel Musician Play Scene Style
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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Bridge Dream Education High School Graduation Success
If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn’t care as long as they sang without dissonance.
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Contradictory Freedom Long Shout Sing Song Unison Voice
And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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Absurdity Awesome Better Die Life Live Share
Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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Chaos Desire Emerge Giving Patterns Positive Try
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Black History People Refuse Understand Visible
I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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Ditch Guilt Hurt Invisibility Pain Sorror
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 possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Black History Fame Fiber Invisible Life Luck Men People Substance

I remember that I’m invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

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