Random Quotes from: The Invisible Man

"America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

"There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers."

"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."

"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."

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

"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."

"When I discover who I am, I'll be free."

"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead."

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

By: Ralph Ellison