Ralph Ellison

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.

— Ralph Ellison

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

— Ralph Ellison

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

— Ralph Ellison