Invisible Man

By

Ralph Ellison

QUOTATION: 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.
ATTRIBUTION: Ralph Ellison (b. 1914), U.S. author. The narrator, in The Invisible Man, prologue (1952).