"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 (b. 1914-03-01, d. 1994-04-16), Invisible Man (1952, Random House)
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