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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

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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.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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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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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
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I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.
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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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Power, for the writer….lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.
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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?
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form…without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death…the truth is the light and light is the truth.
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
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