I heard...a word
"Here he was trying to make something of himself, and the invisible hand was punishing the ambitious and rewarding the servile to keep colored people in their place."
Confessions of a Reneger
“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie extoplasms. 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. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination—indeed, everything and anything except me.” -Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man"
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